Hemorrhage from Extra-Antral Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia in a Patient with Duodenal Heterotopic Gastric Mucosa

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Duodenal biopsies demonstrating oxyntic gastric glandular cells (specialized acid secreting) underlying gastric foveolar epithelium on the surface, no goblet cells or enterocytes to identify it as intestinal (a), and presence of dilated and ectatic blood vessels with mild vascular congestion, features characteristic of GAVE (b).

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