Presentation
History of longstanding use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Patient Data
Age: 25 years
Gender: Male
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Supine
There are multiple tiny erosions with surrounding radiolucent mounds of edema in the distal gastric antrum, compatible with erosive antral gastritis.
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The yellow ovals indicate some of the gastric antral erosions.
Case Discussion
Longstanding NSAID use (in this case, for migraine headaches) predisposes a patient to antral gastritis, and in this patient small oval lucencies in the gastric antrum are compatible with antral gastritis and mucosal erosions. Since the lucencies are small (2-3 mm), the term "erosion" is favored; larger lucencies are usually termed "ulcers."
A follow up upper endoscopy confirmed the findings.
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