Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Gastrointestinal Bleeding |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management |
| Publisher | Springer New York |
| Pages | 31-37 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781441916921 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine