[Unusual cause of intestinal invagination: congenital polypoid-form gastric heterotopia. Study of a case and review of the literature]

Abstract

The authors report a case of polypoid heterotopic gastric mucosa in the ileum presenting as intussusception with hypochromic anemia in a 6 year-old boy. Tumorous heterotopic gastric mucosa in the small bowel is very uncommon. So far 22 similar cases have been published in the literature. This congenital intestinal anomaly is discovered in one third of the cases during the first decade. In 9 of 23 cases gastric heterotopia was diagnosed after an ileal resection for intussusception induced by the heterotopia presenting as a pedunculated or sessile polyp. In our case the great number of the polypoid formations is exceptional and has not been previously described.