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Figure 1. A 76-year-old woman presented with a two-month history of intermittent melena, weakness, and anemia that required the transfusion of six units of packed red cells. In the past she had been treated for hypertension and hypothyroidism. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed gastric atrophy and bright red stripes in the antrum of the stomach that radiated spokelike from the pylorus and resembled the stripes of a watermelon — the typical findings of vascular ectasia of the gastric antrum. In Panel A, the view from the distal portion of the gastric body shows a linear pattern of vascular ectasias that begin in . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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