gastric antral vascular ectasia


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  • Clinical

    • occult GI bleeding in elderly females
    • endoscopy: linear vascular stripes in antrum
    • associations: autoimmune disease, cirrhosis

  • Histology

    • fibrin thrombi in mucosal capillaries
    • foveolar hyperplasia
    • lamina propria has fibromuscular hyperplasia
    • atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia

  • Ddx

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