Heterotopic pancreas is a rare condition and its preoperative diagnosis is difficult. It is generally asymptomatic, but it may become clinically evident depending on the size, location and the pathological changes. Heterotopic pancreas can occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract, but most commonly is found in the antrum of the stomach. We report an unusual case of a 31-year-old male patien...

Background Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is a common surgical condition in infancy, and typically presents at 2-4 weeks of age. Case Presentation A full term male neonate in Zeinabieh hospital, Shiraz, Iran was presented with oral feeding intolerance from birth, bile-stained...

Isolated gastric tuberculosis is a rare condition, even in those parts of the world where intestinal tuberculosis is common. Herein we describe a case of a thirty year old female patient with isolated gastric tuberculosis who presented with features of gastric outlet obstruction.

We have presented a case of gallbladder carcinoma with gastric outlet obstruction and gallstone ileus, a combination apparently not reported in the literature previously.

measures best adapted for its relief. The condition may be produced either by an obstruction at the pylorus to the expulsion of the gastric contents, or by morbid changes in the muscular walls of the stomach without pyloric obstruction. Stenosis of the pylorus is most commonly due to cancer, but may also be produced by simple fibrous stricture, or by the cicatricial contraction resulting from t...

Association of d-transposition of the great arteries and complete atrio-ventricular canal constitutes an uncommon and complex cardiac anomaly usually associated with poor prognosis. We report our experience on one-stage neonatal repair for d-transposition of the great arteries and complete atrio-ventricular canal. Between August 1997 and 2005, four patients (two males and two females) underwent...

Gastric necrosis is a rare entity mainly due to the rich collateral blood flow the stomach is supplied by. Acute gastric dilation is one of the described underlying causes, and although not fully understood, many potential alterations, such as vascular compression, herniation, volvulus, acute necrotizing gastritis, complications after abdominal surgery, anorexia, bulimia nervosa, trauma, exposu...

Failure of the peritoneum to fuse with the umbilical vein can lead to nonfixation of the falciform ligament. The exposed remnant of umbilical vein persists as a congenital band spanning the peritoneal cavity from the umbilicus to the liver. This abnormality has been associated with internal herniation and bowel obstruction in infants. We describe a case of pyloric stenosis in an infant who, at ...

A fall in the chloriine content of the blood in cases of high intestiiial obstruction is a well-recognized biochemical finding. The opinion is genierally held that the diminution in the level of the blood chlorine is due primarily to the loss of chlorine by the vomitus. Accompanying this decrease in chlorine there is ani increase in the CO2 content, resulting in a non-gaseouis alkalosis ww ith ...

IMPORTANCE Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is a serious condition in which hypertrophy of the pyloric sphincter muscle layer leads to gastric outlet obstruction. Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis shows strong familial aggregation and heritability, but knowledge about specific genetic risk variants is limited. OBJECTIVES To search the genome comprehensively for genetic ass...