Abstract
Pill-induced esophageal injury is a well described clinical entity. In contrast, pill-induced gastric injury has not been well characterized. In this report, we describe two patients with acute gastric ulcers due to pill ingestion and review the available literature on pill-induced gastric injury. The first patient presented with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage and was found to have a large gastric ulcer with multiple potassium chloride pills in the ulcer crater. The second patient presented with odynophagia and endoscopy revealed doxycycline-induced esophageal and gastric injury. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of doxycycline-induced gastric ulcer.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 511-513 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | American Journal of Gastroenterology |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |