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Postgrad Med J 1989;65:748-749 doi:10.1136/pgmj.65.768.748
  • Research Article

Pancreatic pseudocyst haemorrhage presenting as a bleeding duodenal ulcer.

  1. D. J. Muckart,
  2. P. Bade
  1. Department of Surgery, University of Natal, Durban, Republic of South Africa.

      Abstract

      We present a case of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage where the preoperative endoscopic findings suggested a duodenal ulcer as the cause. Although at operation this proved to be the site of bleeding, the source was found to be the splenic artery in the base of a pancreatic pseudocyst.

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