Afro-Egypt J Infect Endem Dis 2012 June ;2(2):92

 

Video Case: Lower Esophageal Crack and Gastric Leiomyoma: Uncommon Causes of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Egypt

 

Emara MH , El-Madawy AI

 

Tropical Medicine Department , Faculty of Medicine , Zagazig University,Egypt
emara_20007@yahoo.com

 

                              

 

COMMENT

  A 62 years old male patient presented by an acute attack of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient gave no history of any chronic medical disease. He then was admitted to the emergency unit of Al-Reyah Hospital (a charity hospital, Biala, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt) and after resuscitation measures an emergency upper GIT endoscopy was done, the source of bleeding was identified as a lower esophageal linear crack while a large gastric smooth mass not yielding on pressure was seen and it seems to be most probably a gastric leiomyoma.