The vital threat of an upper gastrointestinal bleeding: Risk factor analysis of 121 consecutive patients

Table 1 Reason for the occurrence of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding

Reasonfor bleeding	Duodenalulcer	Gastriculcer	Erosivemucosal lesion	Esophagealvaricosis	Mallory-Weiss-syndrome	Cancer	Coagulopathy	Lymphoma	Benign tumor	Unknownreason
%	29.8	28.9	16.5	9.9	6.6	4.1	3.3	1.7	1.7	0.8
Number (n = 125)1	36	35	20	12	8	5	4	2	2	1

¹Four patients presented with both duodenal and gastric ulcers with each showing an endoscopic evidence of bleeding and thus each ulcer was counted as a whole.