Iron medication-associated gastric mucosal injury

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 821-822

  Ji, Hongxiu ^a,b   Yardley, John H ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOSIDERIN; IRON; MUCIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; STOMACH MUCOSA LESION;

FEMALE; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; IRON; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 3042819521     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Abraham SC, Yardley JH, Wu TT. Erosive injury to the upper gastrointestinal tract in patients receiving iron medication: an underrecognized entity. Am J Surg Pathol. 1999;23:1241-1247.
2. Eckstein RP, Symons P. Iron tablets cause histopathologically distinctive lesions in mucosal biopsies of the stomach and esophagus. Pathology. 1996;28:142-145.