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Case Reports
. 1992 Dec;27(12):1537-8.
doi: 10.1016/0022-3468(92)90498-v.

Prolapsed hyperplastic gastric polyp causing gastric outlet obstruction, hypergastrinemia, and hematemesis in an infant

G S Brooks  1 , E S Frost, C Wesselhoeft
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Case Reports

Prolapsed hyperplastic gastric polyp causing gastric outlet obstruction, hypergastrinemia, and hematemesis in an infant

G S Brooks et al. J Pediatr Surg. 1992 Dec.

Abstract

An infant presented with hematemesis and gastric outlet obstruction. Preoperative diagnosis of duodenal duplication cyst was based on a collaboration of radiological studies. At exploration the patient was found to have a gastric polyp that had intussuscepted into the duodenum leading to obstruction and hypergastrinemia secondary to gastric mucosa in the duodenal alkaline environment.

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