Gastroparesis associated with gastroptosis presenting as a lower abdominal bulking mass in a child. Report of a case
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We report a rare case of secondary gastroparesis due to gastroptosis in an 11-year-old female child. The patient complained for bulking mass in the left lower quadrate presented a week ago, which was mimicking a large abdominal hernia. The laboratory and radiological exams revealed an excessive gastroptosis associated with gastroparesis. Gastroparesis is defined as an inhibition of the gastric motility associated with delayed gastric emptying, which is mainly presented with acute dyspepsia. Gastroptosis is the downward displacement of the stomach. We searched the literature but we failed to find other cases with idiopathic gastroptosis in a child. The patient was treated conservatively and six months after the initial diagnosis and treatment the patient does not complains for dyspepsia. Background Gastroptosis is defined as the downward displacement of the stomach.1 Since nowadays only few sporadic cases of this rare entity have been reported in the literature and all of them refer to adult patients.1,2,3,4,5 Gastroparesis is inhibition of the gastric motility which characterized as paralysis, and is also very rare in children.1 A detailed of the literature by using the relative terms failed to find similar reports of both these entities co-existing in children. We are presenting a unique case of gastroparesis associated with gastroptosis in a female child presented as painful bulking lower abdominal mass.
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Gastroparesis associated with gastroptosis presenting as a lower abdominal bulking mass in a child: a case report
BACKGROUND Gastroparesis is defined as an inhibition of the gastric motility associated with delayed gastric emptying, which is mainly presented with acute dyspepsia. Gastroptosis is the downward displacement of the stomach. CASE REPORT We report a rare case of secondary gastroparesis due to gastroptosis in an 11-year-old female child. The patient complained for bulking mass in the left lower...
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