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Can you tell me how a gastic ulcer differ from a duodenal ulcer please ?
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Location: gastric ulcer is in the stomach, duodenal ulcer is in the duodenum (small intestine). the risk factors to get them are usually the same, they both have the same type of complications (bleeding, pain, etc).
Answered 7/17/2015
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