Leiomyoma of the Stomach

Exogastric leiomyoma

“…In this type the overlying mucosa, and sometimes the tumour, undergo ulceration and as the result of insidious bleeding severe anaemia, sometimes mistaken for pernicious anaemia, can occur. In practically all the described cases in which haemorrhage was a dominant feature, ulceration was present in the fundus of the tumour (Sworn and Cooper, 1938 ;Whyte, 1940 ; Levy and Horn, I941), and the radiological findings i n such cases are said to be sufficiently characteristic to make diagnosis possible. In one series over 50 per cent of the cases presented with hamatemesis or melzna (Golden and Stout, 1941).…”