Ectopic pancreas is typically asymptomatic anomaly that can present anywhere along the GI tract. It often found incidentally and may become clinically evident when complicated by inflammation, bleeding, obstruction, or malignant transformation. Here, we a case of ectopic who presented with gastrointestinal bleeding.

The most common and challenging gastrointestinal motility disorders in children include gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), esophageal achalasia, gastroparesis, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, and constipation. GERD is the most common gastrointestinal motility disorder affecting children and is diagnosed clinically and treated primarily with acid secretion blockade. Esophageal achala...

Postoperative pseudo-obstruction is a rare state of protracted gastrointestinal paresis that may progress to paralysis without the presence of obstructive lesions. Pseudo-obstruction is usually, but not exclusively, associated with an abdominal operative procedure (laparotomy), however, it may occasionally occur following extra-abdominal operations. As differentiated from the usual, 'physiologi...

Abstract: The aetiology of hollow visceral myopathy remains poorly understood despite the review histology and is often misdiagnosed. It characterized by impaired intestinal function motility in absence mechanical obstruction, which may be familial (transmitted a dominant or recessive gene) sporadic. Familial rare hereditary myopathic degeneration both gastrointestinal (and urinary tracts) that...

: The most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract is Meckel’s diverticulum which a true diverticulum, involving whole walls small intestine. John Friedrich Meckel described embryological basis for midgut in 1809. complicated with enterolithiasis 3 - 10% cases. Adults are likely to present intestinal obstruction. primary enterolith and mesodiverticular band rarely cause acute bo...

Trichobezoar is a rare condition caused by the accumulation of foreign material, specifically hair, into gastrointestinal tract. Underlying psychiatric disorders are common among patients diagnosed with bezoars. This most commonly associated trichophagia, trichotillomania might also be present. Typically, this disorder acquainted in adolescent females who complain alopecia, along an upper abdom...

The Authors Reply Thank you for your letter regarding our case report of three patients harboring the mitochondrial DNA A3243G (m.3243A>G) mutation, which manifested as chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (1). The pathophysiology of chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by the m.3243A>G mutation was uncertain, and the presence of either myenteric plexus neuropathy or visceral myopathy w...

Small bowel metastases due to lung cancer are extremely rare and predominantly cause intestinal obstruction, perforation gastrointestinal bleeding. We report the case of a 51-year-old man diagnosed with pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma which an ileal mass was subsequently removed found be compatible localization carcinoma.

Gastrointestinal foreign body (FB) obstruction in felines is one of the emergencies and commonly required surgical interventions. The purpose this study was therefore to investigate risk factors that could prone cats ingest FB. This retrospectively conducted on sixty-five had been diagnosed with FB obstruction. On other hand, no clinical findings suggestive gastrointestinal illnesses were used ...

A bezoar is a collection of indigestible material found in the alimentary canal, which can cause mechanical obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract. Phytobezoar is a variant composed of mostly plant material and indigestible fiber. Phytobezoar is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction (SBO) and happens more commonly in patients with risk factors predisposing to impaired gastrointestinal moti...