High resolution image: A benign gastric ulcer located in the upper part of the gastric body
Benign Gastric Ulcers
The typical localization of a benign gastric ulcer is in the angulus region - in the border zone between corpus and antrum - on the lesser curvature. All these ulcers are benign - but one can never know and multiple biopsies and follow up of lesions like these is clearly indicated.
A gastric ulcer at the typical localization, benign.
Another - this time very small - ulcer at the angulus, the typical localization.
Healing of a Large Benign Ulcer
A man about 70 years old, with stomach pain, vomiting and anemia - and a large
but benign ulcer above the angulus in the small curvature. The second picture shows the same ulcer after one mohths treatment with omeprazole, and after 3 months treatment only a scar is visible (the third picture).
Another example of a large gastric ulcer
... and the finding after one month of treatment with a proton pump inhibitor.
High resolution image: A benign gastric ulcer located in the lower part of the gastric body. The black spot in the ulcer surface is an indication of a risk of rebleeding