An unusual cause of giant gastric ulcer
| Journal | Volume 77 - 2014 |
| Issue | Fasc.4 - Letters |
| Author(s) | Omer Ozturk, Seyfettin Koklu, Mazhyd Veisalov |
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| Department of Gastroenterology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. |
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Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) may involve different gastrointestinal sites, and small bowel is the commonest organ (1). Involvement of the stomach is observed in less than 10% of the patients during the course of the disease (1-3). Primay gastric BL is extremely rare (1). Here we report a case with involvement of stomach by giant BL ulcer presented with gastrointestinal bleeding initially. |
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