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DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-36402
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Watermelon Stomach Seen by Wireless-Capsule Endoscopy
M. Mascarenhas-Saraiva, M.D., Ph.D.
Digestive Endoscopy and Motility Unit, Trindade Hospital
Rua Trindade, 115, 4000-541 Porto, Portugal
Fax: + 351-22-3390-732
Email: miguelms@manoph.pt
Publication History
Publication Date:
02 January 2003 (online)
Figure 1 A 51-year-old man with iron-deficiency anemia underwent an upper digestive endoscopy which revealed a watermelon stomach, i. e. linear red streaks running longitudinally in the gastric antrum.
Figure 2 To evaluate concomitant sources of bleeding, ileocolonoscopy and wireless-capsule endoscopy were performed. Ileocolonoscopy showed normal findings. Capsule endoscopy showed linear red streaks in the stomach running longitudinally in the gastric antrum, as was expected; in the jejunum there were two small angiodysplasias. This is the first image of a watermelon stomach seen by wireless-capsule endoscopy. All the red streaks were coagulated using argon plasma, in a single session.
M. Mascarenhas-Saraiva, M.D., Ph.D.
Digestive Endoscopy and Motility Unit, Trindade Hospital
Rua Trindade, 115, 4000-541 Porto, Portugal
Fax: + 351-22-3390-732
Email: miguelms@manoph.pt
M. Mascarenhas-Saraiva, M.D., Ph.D.
Digestive Endoscopy and Motility Unit, Trindade Hospital
Rua Trindade, 115, 4000-541 Porto, Portugal
Fax: + 351-22-3390-732
Email: miguelms@manoph.pt
Figure 1 A 51-year-old man with iron-deficiency anemia underwent an upper digestive endoscopy which revealed a watermelon stomach, i. e. linear red streaks running longitudinally in the gastric antrum.
Figure 2 To evaluate concomitant sources of bleeding, ileocolonoscopy and wireless-capsule endoscopy were performed. Ileocolonoscopy showed normal findings. Capsule endoscopy showed linear red streaks in the stomach running longitudinally in the gastric antrum, as was expected; in the jejunum there were two small angiodysplasias. This is the first image of a watermelon stomach seen by wireless-capsule endoscopy. All the red streaks were coagulated using argon plasma, in a single session.