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erosive gastritis

hemorrhagic gastritis

etiology (50% without causative factors):

  • emotional stress, alcohol, acid, corrosives, severe burns, antiinflammatory agents (aspirin, steroids, phenylbutazone, etc.)
  • Crohn disease
  • herpes, CMV, candidiasis

X-ray:
  • varioliform erosion ("target lesions"), <5mm, usually multiple
  • nodularity/scalloping of prominent antral folds
  • incomplete erosion (linear streaks/dots of barium)
  • may have contiguous duodenal disease
  • limited distensibility, poor peristalsis/atony, delayed gastric emptying

  • 0.5-10% of all GI studies
  • 10-20% of all GI hemmorrhage

Yong H. Hahn, MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

Related CHORUS documents:
gastritis
emphysematous gastritis
phlegmonous gastritis
Crohn disease
gastric ulcers
delayed gastric emptying

 

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