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Table 2 Etiology for iron deficiency anaemia without gastrointestinal symptoms

From: Predictors of gastrointestinal lesions on endoscopy in iron deficiency anemia without gastrointestinal symptoms

Bleeding Lesions

No (%)

Upper gastrointestinal Lesions

 

Hiatal Hernia with Cameron Lesion

2 (2.1)

Erosive oesophagitis

6 (6.3)

¶Oesophageal Mass

01(1.1)

Erosive Gastritis

08(8.4)

Gastric Ulcer

05(5.3)

‡Gastric Mass

03(3.2)

†Gastric polyp

04(4.2)

Hypertensive Portal Gastropathy

02(2.1)

Erosive Duodenitis

03(3.2)

Duodenal ulcer

05(5.3)

Lower Gastrointestinal Lesion

 

Colonic Ulcer

04(4.3)

††Colonic Mass

02(2.1)

*Colonic Polyp

02(2.1)

Vascular Ectasia in Colon

01(1.1)

Diffuse Diverticular Disease

01(1.1)

Both Upper and Lower gastrointestinal lesion

 

Erosive Oesophagitis + Colonic ulceration

01(1.1)

Non Bleeding Lesions

 

Helicobacter related Gastritis

14(14.7)

Celiac Disease

03(3.2)

No Endoscopic or Histopathologic lesion

27 (28.4)

  1. ¶Adenocarcinoma, ‡2 were adenocarcinoma, one lymphoma †one GIST, 3 hyperplastic polp, †† adenocarcinoma, * hyperplastic polyp.