Gastric Wall Abscess

Jun Young Lee; Suck Chei Choi; Geom Seog Seo

doi:10.4166/kjg.2011.57.5.327

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Korean J Gastroenterol 2011;57(5):327-329.

Published online: 4 October 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4166/kjg.2011.57.5.327

Gastric Wall Abscess

Jun Young Lee, Suck Chei Choi, Geom Seog Seo

Department of Gastroenterology and Digestive Disease Research Institute, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Korea

Correspondence to: Geom Seog Seo, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, 344-2, Shinyong-dong, Iksan 570-749, Korea. Tel: +82-63-850-2670, Fax: +82-63-855-2025, E-mail: medsgs@wonkwang.ac.kr

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Fig. 1.

The fingings of gastroscopy. (A) Gastroscopy showed hyperemic edematous subepithelial tumorlike lesion in the cardia. (B) Cushion sign was positive. (C) Yellowish pus was drained after compression by the forcep.

Fig. 2.

Abdominal CT scan showed about 4 cm sized low attenuated fluid collection which had enhanced thick wall.

Fig. 3.

The fingings of gastroscopy at hospital 8 day. (A) Lesion size was much smaller than previous study. (B) Insicion was made with a needle knife. (C) Small amount of whitish pus material was drained after incision.

Fig. 4.

The fingings of gastroscopy at hospital 11 day showed much smaller lesion than previous.

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