duplications of gastrointestinal tract are congenital anomalies found in about 0.2% of all children. these include the rare gastric duplication. we present such a cyst in a 14 years old girl with gastric outlet obstruction. she was found to have a noncommunicating antral duplication cyst .the cyst was managed by cystectomy and marsupialization. microscopically the duplication cyst contained a m...

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...

Heterotopic pancreas is defined as pancreatic tissue found outside the usual anatomical location of the pancreas. It is often an incidental finding and can be found at different sites in the gastrointestinal tract. It may become clinically evident when complicated by pathological changes such as inflammation, bleeding, obstruction, and malignant transformation. We report an unusual case of a 25...

DESCRIPTION A 27-year-old woman presented to the medicine outpatient clinic with easy fatiguability and breathlessness on exertion since 2 months. She also complained of sore oral mucosa and was unable to swallow large morsels of food. Physical examination revealed angular cheilitis and pigmentation of the oral mucosa, severe pallor, koilonychias (figure 1), large volume pulse and a haemic murm...

BACKGROUND Perivascular epithelioid-cell tumor (PEComa) is a group of rare mesenchymal neoplasms that express myomelanocytic-cell markers and exhibit a wide variety of histopathological features. Although heterotopic pancreas has been reported to occur in the gastrointestinal tract, intrahepatic heterotopic pancreas has been reported only rarely. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of intrahe...

Heterotopic pancreas is a rare disease. We evaluated 17 patients treated surgically at our hospital. Epigastric pain (77%), abdominal fullness (30%), and tarry stools (24%) were the three most frequent symptoms and signs. The lesions were diagnosed as gastroduodenal tumors by gastroduodenoscopy (67%) or upper gastrointestinal series (71%). Among these, only one gastric submucosal tumor was cons...