Recurrent gastric hemorrhaging with large submucosal hematomas in a patient with primary AL systemic amyloidosis: Endoscopic and histopathological findings

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 468-472

  Iijima Dohi, Naoko ^a   Shinji, Akihiro ^a   Shimizu, Toshiki ^a   Ishikawa, Sho Zou ^a   Mukawa, Kenji ^a   Nakamura, Tomotugu ^a   Maruyama, Keiko ^a   Hoshii, Yoshinobu ^b   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^c  

^a Suwa Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal amyloidosis; Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Primary amyloidosis; Submucosal hematoma

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID A PROTEIN; FAMOTIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; M PROTEIN; RABEPRAZOLE;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH ULCER; SUBMUCOSA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYLOIDOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENCE; STOMACH DISEASES; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 3242786462     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.468     Document Type: Article

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