Your patient has just returned from the diagnostic imaging department and the doctor has told the patient that they have a Mallory-Weiss tear. The patient asks you what a Mallory-Weiss tear is. How should you respond to this patient?
- “A Mallory-Weiss tear is a kind of diverticulitis.”
- “A Mallory-Weiss tear is an esophageal tear”
- “A Mallory-Weiss tear is a lacrimal gland disorder.”
- “A Mallory-Weiss tear is a tear that results from a peptic ulcer.
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