BACKGROUND Hyperplastic polyps are the most common polypoid lesions of the stomach. Rarely, they cause gastric outlet obstruction by prolapsing through the pyloric channel, when they arise in the prepyloric antrum. CASE PRESENTATION A 62-year-old woman presented with intermittent nausea and vomiting of 4 months duration. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a 30 mm prepyloric sessile pol...

Although gastric polyp is usually an incidental endoscopic finding, large-sized polyps can cause symptoms ranging from epigastralgia to bleeding from ulcerated polyps and gastric outlet obstruction. Although the gold standard of treatment is removal of the polyp either through endoscopic polypectomy or surgical excision, complications associated with these procedures cannot be ignored. The risk...

We report a case of gastric hamartomatous inverted polyps that are a rare histological type of gastric polyp and difficult to diagnose. Gastric submucosal tumor was detected by upper gastrointestinal X-ray series in 37-year-old man. Endoscopy revealed a submucosal tumor (SMT) , which eroded with a depression on its surface in the fornix. Endoscopic ultrasonography showed a heterogeneous tumor i...

We report a rare case of hemorrhagic gastric polyps resulting in anemia during long-term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) administration that endoscopically looked like a fundic gland polyp (FGP). A 44-year-old man presented complaining of anemia and tarry stools. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) demonstrated multiple white edematous polyps in the corpus and antrum, which were considered to be FGPs....

We report a case of a 45-year-old woman who presented with vomiting & severe fatigue. On routine examination show iron deficiency anemia Gastroscopy revealed a large polyp in the antral region causing intermittent gastric outlet obstruction. Histopathologic examination revealed an inflammatory fibroid polyp (known also as Vanek’s tumour). 1 Background: Gastric polyps are usually found incidenta...

A 73-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with complaints of tarry stools. He had been receiving warfarin anticoagulant therapy for severe left ventricular dysfunction. Prothrombin time international normalized ratio had been maintained within 2.0-3.0. Esophagogastroduodenalscopy revealed a polypoid lesion about 10 mm in diameter on the greater curvature of the stomach with oozing (Picture...

Volumetric laser endomicroscopy (VLE) is a recent advanced imaging technology that allows high resolution microstructure imaging of the esophagus and gastric cardia; it has been increasingly used in Europe and the USA [1–3]. The system has been recently upgraded to include a laser marking device that places cautery marks on the mucosa to provide targets for histology. We report a case of an inc...

Ann Saudi Med 28(3) May-June 2008 www.saudiannals.net 217 Fibrovascular polyps are extremely rare benign neoplasms of the hypopharynx that can arise from any site in the pharynx.1,2 Because of the mixture of stromal tissues, it is hypothesized that the fibrovascular polyp may be a hamartoma or an unusual type of inflammatory polyp. Another theory is that they arise secondary to mucosal injury,3...