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Management of Dieulafoy’s Lesions

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In 1884 Gallard wrote the first description of a patient with a Dieulafoy’s lesion [1]. The lesion’s name, however, comes from Paul Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911), a professor of pathology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. In 1898 Dieulafoy described several patients with fatal GI hemorrhage and a bleeding gastric vessel without associated ulceration [2,3]. He named the lesion exulceratio simplex. Other names and descriptions can also be found in the literature and include gastric aneurysm, caliber-persistent artery, cirsoid aneurysm, and submucosal arterial malformation.

Each of these authors contributed equally to the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Seraina K. Faes M.D., Claire Edwards M.D. & Douglas S. Tyler

  2. Departments of Surgery; General Surgery Residency Training Program, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Brian R. Untch M.D.

  3. Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    John Turner M.D.

  4. Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Martin Poleski M.D.

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Faes, S.K., Untch, B.R., Edwards, C., Turner, J., Poleski, M., Tyler, D.S. (2010). Management of Dieulafoy’s Lesions. In: Pryor, A., Pappas, T., Branch, M. (eds) Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1693-8_4

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