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The Old Endoscopy Quiz (and Answer) of the Month
October 2005

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Question:

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This lady came to an upper endoscopy because she had a mild iron deficiency anaemia and tested positive for blood in faeces. This is the finding in her antrum. What is the probable cause of a finding like this?

Answer:

    NSAID Induced Erosive Gastritis.

Answers and comments were emailed by

    Dr.Virendra Parikh, Fort Wayne, USA, Indiana
    Christos Zavos, Thessaloniki, Greece
    LUISGUILLERMOGUERRERO, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
    bhagwan thakur, Indore, India
    Salvatore Della Ducata, Gallipoli, Italy
    Curt Tysk, Orebro, Sweden
    Subbaramiah Sridhar, Augusta, Georgia, USA
    Cina marcel, Presov, Slovakia
    fahri, Akyüz, Turkey
    Ulrike Hurler, Heidenheim, Germany
    Jozef Toth, Bratislava, Slovakia
    U. Cuartas, Augusta, GA, USA
    Zahreddine Radwan, Beirut, Lebanon
    PARABOLI SILVA ,Marcio Luiz, SAO JOSE DO RIO PRETO, BRAZIL-SP
    ALTIN CEKODHIMA, TIRANA, ALBANIA
    Ma³gorzata Ferenc, Olsztyn, Poland
    Dr.khalid ahmed bamakhrama, Dubai, UAE
    rashedhassen, Fakous, Egypt
    Pierre Gholam, Providence, RI
    Bo Westman, Stockholm, Sweden
    Arber Veliu, Prishtina, Kosovo
    JABER BADRAN, DAIR AZZOR, SYRIA
    Dal Bosco Maurizio, Lonigo, Italy
    Greg Schwartz, Miami Beach, USA, Florida
    melissa, Powder Springs, USA
    Sandy Horne, Philadelphia, USA

    pushpakaran, London, Uk
    Vasso Arvaniti, Piraeus, Greece
    Radu Ionescu, Bucharest, Romania
    Jaana Erholm, Pori, Finland
    minh thuan phuong ngo, Ho chi Minh city,Vietnam

Comments:

    ... Answers from 22 countries in five continents. It is a small world we are living in!


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