A gastric dieulafoy lesion presenting with life-threatening upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage during recovery from hypertriglyceridemic acute pancreatitis: a case report
Background Dieulafoy lesions are an uncommon but potentially life-threatening cause of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding, caused by rupture of a large-caliber submucosal artery through a minute mucosal defect; diagnosis is difficult because bleeding is intermittent and the surrounding mucosa appears nearly n...