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Erosive gastritis and duodenitis resulting from chronic ischemia were seen at endoscopy in a 69-year-old woman with classical abdominal angina and severe atheromatous disease of all three splanchnic arteries.
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Force, T., MacDonald, D., Eade, O.E. et al. Ischemic gastritis and duodenitis. Digest Dis Sci 25, 307–310 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01308523
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