Gastro-oesophageal laceration-haemorrhage syndrome

Definition

Bleeding from tears in the mucosa at the junction of the stomach and oesophagus, usually caused by severe vomiting, retching or coughing.

Inclusions

• Mallory-Weiss lesion
• Mallory-Weiss syndrome
• Mallory-Weiss tear

Also indexed as

Nearby in Vascular disorders of the oesophagus

• DA26.0Oesophageal varices
• DA26.1Angiodysplasia or arteriovenous malformation of oesophagus
• DA26.2Intramural haemorrhage of oesophagus
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified