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An Exceptionally Rare Cause of Upper Digestive Tract Hemorrhage: the Intragastric Rupture of a Splenic Artery Aneurysm Associated with a Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Cover

An Exceptionally Rare Cause of Upper Digestive Tract Hemorrhage: the Intragastric Rupture of a Splenic Artery Aneurysm Associated with a Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Open Access
|Feb 2016

Abstract

The most frequent causes of acute upper digestive tract hemorrhage are gastroduodenal ulcers, esophageal varices and gastric erosions. Esogastric cancers, angiodysplasias and Mallory-Weiss syndromes can also become complicated by significant digestive bleedings. Much rarer is the intragastric rupture of a splenic artery aneurysm that induces a cataclysmic upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. We present such an entity, whose exceptional peculiarity is to be associated with a pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Language: English
Published on: Feb 10, 2016
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2016 Aman Toukouki, Nicolas Verbeeck, Jos Weber, Vincent Lens, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.