Haemorrhage from gastric artery aneurysms.

upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Cotton et all have shown that in nearly 80% of cases the cause of the bleeding can be shown if endoscopy is done within the first 48 hours. In a few patients, however, neither conventional radiological studies nor endoscopy shows the site of bleeding.'-3 Submucosal vascular malformations of the stomach may produce massive upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage,4 5 and such lesions may be impossible to diagnose unless coeliac axis angiography is performed.6 We report on three patients who had aneurysms of the left gastric artery in whom life-threatening haemorrhage was successfully controlled with Gelfoam e.nbolisation.