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Steroid Ulcers

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Drug-Induced Injury to the Digestive System

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“Steroid ulcer” is an unfortunate misnomer and clinical jargon because it implies a not clearly established relationship between steroids and ulcer. Neither of the words are actually being used very precisely: namely, steroid in this context usually means glucocorticoid while neglecting the modern classification of steroids (see below) and ulcer is not a precise definition either, because most of these lesions are actually superficial mucosal erosions and they rarely reach the stage of ulcer. Thus, first of all we would like to establish a few definitions and outline the scope of our review.

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Sandor, Z., Szabo, S. (1993). Steroid Ulcers. In: Drug-Induced Injury to the Digestive System. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2220-1_4

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