Islands of gastric mucosa often occur in the terminal, and less frequently in the cervical oesophagus (Stout and Lattes, 1957), but, conversely, the presence of heterotopic islands of oesophageal epithelium lin the gastric fundus has been observed only occasionally (Boswell and Helwig, 1965; Altschuler and Shake 1966), and Hermann (1911) reported an area of stratified epithelium, 3 mm long, nea...

Heterotopic gastrointestinal cysts are lined with gastric and intestinal mucosa. They congenital common in the tract but rare oral cavity. We report a case of 4-year-old girl diagnosis heterotopic cyst floor mouth. A prenatal at another hospital identified 50 mm bottom her To prevent airway obstruction, fenestration was performed on third day after birth. The histopathological time epidermoid c...

A 70-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of overt (melena) and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding requiring an 8-unit blood transfusion. He underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, colonoscopy, and push enteroscopy, all of which were nondiagnostic. A video capsule endoscopy, which reached the cecum at 6 hours and 21 minutes, showed active bleeding at 2 hours and 18 minutes without an...

Heterotopic pancreas is defined as arising of pancreatic tissue ectopically with no anatomical, neural or vascular connection to the normal pancreas [1]. We present here an unusual case that has two heterotopic pancreatic tissues in antrum. A 31-year-old woman was admitted to our outpatient clinic with a four-month history of epigastric pain and dyspepsia. All laboratory tests of the patient we...

BACKGROUND Heterotopic pancreas most commonly occurs in the upper gastrointestinal tract of adults, usually as an incidental finding. It seldom occurs at the umbilicus, and even rarely in the pediatric age group. CASE PRESENTATION Here we present a case of heterotopic pancreatic tissue in the omphalomesenteric duct remnant of a 9-month-old baby girl. She presented with redness at the base of ...

The incidence of heterotopic gastric mucosa located in the submucosa in resected stomach specimens has been reported to be 3.0 to 20.1%. Heterotopic gastric mucosa is thought to be a benign disease, which rarely becomes malignant. Heterotopic gastric mucosa exists in the gastric submucosa, and gastric cancer rarely occurs in heterotopic gastric mucosa. Since tumors are located in the normal sub...

A heterotopic bladder attached to an Ommaya reservoir was transplanted to the back of a syngeneic rat. Following transplantation, the mucosa underwent ischemic necrosis. However, it was rapidly reepithelialized in 2 weeks as a result of spreading of the epithelium originating from the ureterotrigonal region. By light microscopy the regenerated epithelium was indistinguishable from the normal tr...

Alimentary tract duplications are uncommon congenital anomalies. Although most are symptomatic by the age of 2 years, some remain asymptomatic until adulthood. In one third of all cases, heterotopic gastric mucosa lines the wall of dupli­ cation, and may cause peptic ulceration, gastrointestinal bleed­ ing, fistulization or perforation. We report in this paper, a case of jejunoileal duplication...

The presence of heterotopic pancreas has been described in the stomach, duodenum, jejunum, and spleen; it is rarely found in the ileum, liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, mesentery, lungs, mediastinum, and fallopian tubes [1, 3, 6-9]. Approximately 90% of the cases are located in the upper gastrointestinal tract [2]. The stomach is the most frequent site (25–38% of cases), followed by the duodenum...