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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" article-type="case-report"><?properties open_access?><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Korean J Intern Med</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Korean J. Intern. Med</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">KJIM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1226-3303</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2005-6648</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Korean Association of Internal Medicine</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">23526873</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3604621</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3904/kjim.2013.28.2.261</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Image of Interest</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Gastric polyposis associated with portal hypertension</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lee</surname><given-names>Tae Hee</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1-kjim-28-261">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Jang</surname><given-names>Jae Young</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1-kjim-28-261">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jeong</surname><given-names>Soung Won</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1-kjim-28-261">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jin</surname><given-names>So Young</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2-kjim-28-261">2</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="A1-kjim-28-261"><label>1</label>Institute for Digestive Research, Digestive Disease Center, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.</aff><aff id="A2-kjim-28-261"><label>2</label>Department of Pathology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.</aff><author-notes><corresp>
Correspondence to Jae Young Jang, M.D. Tel: +82-2-709-9691, Fax: +82-2-709-9696, <email>jyjang@schmc.ac.kr</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>3</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>27</day><month>2</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>28</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>261</fpage><lpage>261</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>11</day><month>6</month><year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>16</day><month>6</month><year>2012</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>18</day><month>6</month><year>2012</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &#xA9; 2013 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2013</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/"><license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions></article-meta></front><body><p>A 68-year-old woman, with hepatitis B virus cirrhosis, was hospitalized for melena. She had undergone regular esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) examinations to follow-up esophageal variceal ligation. Fifteen months ago, EGD showed several raised erosions in the lower body (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1-kjim-28-261">Fig. 1A</xref>) and grade 2/3 esophageal varices and small gastric varices. The laboratory examination revealed low hemoglobin (7.1 g/dL), mean corpuscular volume (75.8 fL), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (24.6 pg). EGD revealed no bleeding from the esophageal or gastric varices. However, multiple polyps with superficial erosions or erythema were noted (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1-kjim-28-261">Fig. 1B</xref>). The gastric polyps were biopsied and consisted of foveolar hyperplasia, edematous lamina propria, and ectatic capillaries (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1-kjim-28-261">Fig. 1C</xref>). There was erosion of, and marked granulation tissue in, the lamina propria (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1-kjim-28-261">Fig. 1D</xref>). She was diagnosed with gastric polyposis associated with portal hypertension.</p></body><back><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article is reported.</p></fn></fn-group></back><floats-group><fig id="F1-kjim-28-261" position="float"><label>Figure 1</label><caption><p>Endoscopic and histological findings of gastric polyposis associated with portal hypertension. (A) Initial esophagogastroduodenoscopy shows several raised erosions in the lower body. (B) Multiple polyps with superficial erosions or erythema are noted 15 months later. (C) Pathologic specimen shows foveolar hyperplasia, edematous lamina propria, and ectatic capillaries (H&amp;E, &#xD7; 100). (D) There is erosion of, and marked granulation tissue in, the lamina propria C D (H&amp;E, &#xD7; 100).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="kjim-28-261-g001"/></fig></floats-group></article>
