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Medical Must-See: Anaemia unmasks ‘beast’ in man’s stomach

Doctors found speckled dark-brown pigmented mucosa through the upper gastrointestinal tract.
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1 September 2023
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When a 67-year-old man was admitted to hospital with fluid overload, his doctors were not expecting to find cheetah-like spots covering his upper gastrointestinal tract.

The patient had a history of diabetes, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease and chronic kidney disease.

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