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Endoscopic therapy for upper gastrointestinal bleeding: less is more?
  1. Baldwin P M Yeung1,
  2. Carol Craig2,
  3. John Morris3,
  4. Andrew Christie4,
  5. Ram Kasthuri4,
  6. Wesley Stuart5,
  7. Adrian J Stanley3
  1. 1 Department of Surgery, Seng Kang Health, Singapore, Singapore
  2. 2 Department of Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
  3. 3 Department of Gastroenterology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
  4. 4 Department of Interventional Radiology, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK
  5. 5 Department of Vascular Surgery, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Baldwin P M Yeung, Department of Surgery, Sengkang Health, Singapore 159964, Singapore; baldwin.yeung.p.m{at}singhealth.com.sg

https://doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2017-100911

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors BPMY and AJS conceived of the study. All authors contributed to the clinical management of the patient. All authors contributed to refinement of the case report and approved the final manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.