Gastric Teratoma is an extremely rare neoplasm seen in children. It is mostly benign and predominantly seen in males presenting with an abdominal mass. The lung and stomach are very unusual sites for teratoma. Gastric teratoma accounts for less than 1% of all teratomas, less than 100 cases are reported in literature. We report a case in a 20-day-old infant who presented with large abdominal mas...

Metastasis of ovarian carcinoma to the stomach [1–5] or pancreas [6,7] is uncommon. Furthermore, synchronous metastasis of ovarian adenocarcinoma to the stomach and pancreas has never been reported. We report here the detection of synchronous metastasis to both the stomach and pancreas from a resected ovarian papillary serous cystadenocarcinoma. At 25 months after gynecological surgery, a gastr...

BACKGROUND/AIMS TFF2 is a secretory peptide (106 amino acid residues) of the gastric mucosa, the porcine exocrine pancreas as well as immune cells and the CNS. It was the aim of this study to compare gastric and pancreatic TFF2. METHODS TFF2 was purified from the porcine stomach and pancreas, respectively, by size-exclusion and anion-exchange chromatography and then analyzed by Western blots ...

Chronic atrophic gastritis, which is thought to be a high risk for gastric cancer, can be diagnosed by serum pepsinogen levels. We compared the usefulness of the measurement of pepsinogen levels and indirect photofluorography as indicators of gastric cancer in a mass screening involving 5,620 Japanese subjects (mean age: 60.1 years old; male : female = 2,268 : 3,352) in 1991 and 1992. Subjects ...

AIM To evaluate gastric emptying in girls with Turner's syndrome to detect if gastrointestinal motor dysfunction was present. SUBJECTS Thirteen girls (mean age 8.1 years) with Turner's syndrome, seven girls with familial short stature (6.1 years), and eight control girls (7.6 years). METHODS Gastric emptying studies were performed by using 500 microCi of technetium 99m-sulphur colloid bound...

OBJECTIVES Several clinical factors; overweight, male gender and increasing age, have been implicated as the etiology of hiatal hernia. Esophageal shortening due to acid perfusion in the lower esophagus has been suggested as the etiological mechanism. However, little is known about the correlation between gastric acidity and sliding hiatus hernia formation. This study examined whether increased...

A 24-year-old woman was referred to our department because of melena. These symptoms combined with severe anemia prompted us to perform an emergency upper endoscopy, which showed bleeding from an ulcerated 30 mm submucosal tumor in the gastric antrum. A computed tomography scan revealed a homogeneously enhanced mass, and endoscopic ultrasonography identified a well-demarcated mass in the third ...

INTRODUCTION Isolated cases of epicarditis are rare. Thus far, all have occurred with constrictive physiology as most cases involve both parietal and visceral pericardium. We report the first case of asymptomatic epicarditis that involved only the visceral pericardium presenting without constrictive physiology. CASE PRESENTATION A 71-year-old male with a history of atrial fibrillation, corona...

background: north of iran is amongst high incidence rate areas of gastric carcinoma where environmental carcinogenic compounds especially agricultural pesticides are massively used. cytochrome p450 2e1 (cyp2e1) enzyme metabolically activates a large number of low molecular mass xenobiotics. the polymorphic nature of cyp2e1 gene control elements is associated with interindividual differences for...

CONTEXT Pancreatic plasmacytoma is a rare entity and presents with features of mass lesion of pancreas. CASE REPORT We present an interesting case of pancreatic plasmacytoma with life threatening gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to isolated gastric varices. CONCLUSION This case highlights the importance of considering it in differential diagnosis of patients with anemia, recurrent pancre...