Schoonbroodt D, Horsmans Y, Hoang P, Poncelet-Maton E, Laka A, Geubel A
Service de Gastroentérologie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (UCL), Bruxelles, Belgique.
Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 1994;18(6-7):649-51.
Vascular gastric lesions are a rare cause of chronic gastric bleeding. We report the case of a 70-year old woman with primary biliary cirrhosis, CREST syndrome and vascular gastric lesions corresponding to watermelon stomach. Oestrogen-progesterone treatment successfully controlled recurrent blood loss.