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Etiology for iron deficiency anaemia without gastrointestinal symptoms |
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| Bleeding Lesions |
No (%) |
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| Upper gastrointestinal Lesions |
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| Hiatal Hernia with Cameron Lesion |
2 (2.1) |
| Erosive oesophagitis |
6 (6.3) |
| ¶Oesophageal Mass |
01(1.1) |
| Erosive Gastritis |
08(8.4) |
| Gastric Ulcer |
05(5.3) |
| ‡Gastric Mass |
03(3.2) |
| †Gastric polyp |
04(4.2) |
| Hypertensive Portal Gastropathy |
02(2.1) |
| Erosive Duodenitis |
03(3.2) |
| Duodenal ulcer |
05(5.3) |
| Lower Gastrointestinal Lesion |
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| Colonic Ulcer |
04(4.3) |
| ††Colonic Mass |
02(2.1) |
| *Colonic Polyp |
02(2.1) |
| Vascular Ectasia in Colon |
01(1.1) |
| Diffuse Diverticular Disease |
01(1.1) |
| Both Upper and Lower gastrointestinal lesion |
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| Erosive Oesophagitis + Colonic ulceration |
01(1.1) |
| Non Bleeding Lesions |
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| Helicobacter related Gastritis |
14(14.7) |
| Celiac Disease |
03(3.2) |
| No Endoscopic or Histopathologic lesion |
27 (28.4) |
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¶Adenocarcinoma, ‡2 were adenocarcinoma, one lymphoma †one GIST, 3 hyperplastic polp, †† adenocarcinoma, * hyperplastic polyp. | |
Majid et al. BMC Gastroenterology 2008 8:52 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-8-52 |
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