Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (Excluding Peptic Ulcer and Esophageal Varices)

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Miscellaneous ConditionsMallory-Weiss SyndromeDecker, Zamcheck and Mallory122 reviewed this form of gastrointestinal bleeding, which is due to erosions or lacerations in the long axis of the stomach and esophagus, usually about the gastroesophageal junction, in presenting 11 cases studied at autopsy. (Chalmers et al.11 reported 3 such cases in 101 fatal cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. ) Of the 11 cases of Decker, Zamcheck and Mallory122 5 were not associated with other grave disease, and this lesion was the principal cause of death. In the other cases serious disease in remote organs was found, but in only 2 was there . . .

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