A 74-Year-Old Man Presented to the Emergency Department Due to an Episode

A 74-year-old man presented to the emergency department due to an episode of bloody vomiting. He also complains of dark tarry stool and abdominal pain in the past week. The patient is known to have pancreatic cancer. Physical examination shows tenderness in the epigastric area. Digital rectal examination shows black tarry stool. The patient is referred for an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, which shows bleeding enlarged veins in the gastric fundus. Other parts of the gastrointestinal tract appear normal. An abnormality in which of the following veins describe this patient's presentation?

A) Azygos vein
B) Left gastric vein
C) Pancreaticoduodenal vein
D) Splenic vein
E) Superior mesenteric vein

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