Large Brunner's gland hamartoma with annular stricture causing gastric outlet obstruction

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[ 3-year old child with gastric outlet obstruction due to pyloric web: a case report]

The most common cause of gastric outlet obstruction in neonates and infants is hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Pyloric web as a cause of gastric outlet obstruction is relatively rare in children and presents with non bilious vomiting, abdominal pain and failure to thrive. The onset of symptoms is usually late with nonspecific symptoms like vomiting and failure to thrive that seems to be due to neuromuscular incoordination. Here we report a 3 year-old boy with prolonged fever, anorexia, and intractable postprandial non bilious vomiting and weight loss since 20 days prior to admission. Barium meal study revealed gastric outlet obstruction with a dilated stomach. The patient underwent laparotomy and pyloric web was confirmed as the cause of the symptoms and Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty led to disappearing of the entire patient's problems

Obstrucción intestinal causada por tricobezoar: Síndrome de Rapunzel / Intestinal obstruction due to a tríchobezoar or Rapunzel Syndrome: report of one case

Rapunzel syndrome or gastrointestinal trichobezoar is caused by hair ingestion. The diagnosis may be suspected in young females with important weight loss, who deny hair eating. We report a 16 year-old female consulting in the emergency room for abdominal pain. She was subjected to an exploratory laparotomy and a big mass was palpated in the stomach. A gastrostomy and enterostomy were performed and a 17x6x5 cm trichobezoar was extracted. The patient had an uneventful postoperative outcome and was derived to Psychiatry.

Tricobezoares gastroduodenales: una causa poco frecuente de obstrucción del tracto de salida / Gastro-duodenal Trichobezoars: a rare cause of obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract

Antecedentes: el tricobezoar representa el 55% de los bezoares en el hombre. El 90% de los casos son mujeres y el 40% presentan trastornos psiquiátricos. Objetivo: evaluar el motivo de consulta y la metodología diagnóstica y terapéutica realizada en pacientes con tricobezoares. Diseño: análisis retrospectivo de historias clínicas y reporte de casos. Método: se incluyeron 4 pacientes, desde enero de 2000 hasta marzo de 2004, 3 mujeres y 1 varón, con una edad media de 32.3 años (rango 22 a 37 años). Resultados: todos los pacientes presentaron tumoración epigástrica no dolorosa, dispepsia, vómitos biliosos y pérdida de peso de 5 a 25 kg. En 3 se realizó una seriada esófago-gastroduodenal (SEGD) y en todos ecografía, tomografía computada (TAC) y videoendoscopía alta (VEDA). Todos recibieron tratamientos endoscópicos con intención de remoción, sin lograr el objetivo. Todos negaron tricofagia y tenían patología psiquiátrica. El tratamiento quirúrgico fue gastrotomía con exéresis del tricobezoar. El peso medio fue de 1.100 g (rango 700 a1.500 g). Conclusiones: el tricobezoar es una rara causa de obstrucción del tracto de salida. El diagnóstico debe ser sospechado por clínica y SEGD, y confirmado por VEDA y TAC. El tratamiento de elección es el quirúrgico. No obstante se han descripto otros tratamientos como la fragmentación endoscópica, la litotripsia extracorpórea y, recientemente, el abordaje laparoscópico.

Bouveret's syndrome--an unusual cause of spontaneous resolution of gastric outlet obstruction.

Gastric outlet obstruction due to a gallstone impacted in the duodenal bulb (Bouveret's syndrome) is a rare complication of gallstones. We report a 47-year-old man with this syndrome in whom the impacted stone migrated uneventfully.

Congenital pyloric atresia [CPA]: report of two cases, with review of literature

We are reporting two neonates with isolated pyloric atresia, with an objective to emphasize the importance of considering this rare condition in the differential diagnosis of upper intestinal atresias. Both had non-bilious vomiting and epigastric fullness. X-ray showed a dilated gastric shadow with no evidence of gas in the rest of the abdomen. On exploration they had pyloric atresia which was corrected with gastroduodenostomy. Congenital pyloric atresia is a rare condition, which presents with features of gastric outlet obstruction. It can be diagnosed antenatally but the picture can mimic other conditions. Epidermolysis bullosa has a strong association with it and require skin biopsy for diagnosis

Spontaneous biliary perforation presenting as gastric outlet obstruction.

Spontaneous biliary perforation (SBP) is a rare, surgically correctable cause of jaundice in neonates. The presenting feature is usually biliary ascites, and in rare cases, biliary peritonitis. This article reports a case of SBP, which presented with features of gastric outlet obstruction, leading to an erroneous preoperative diagnosis. Most probably this is the first report of such an unusual presentation of SBP. The child underwent exploratory laparotomy and a bilio-enteric bypass with drainage of the right subhepatic space, which led to a prompt resolution of the symptoms.

Primary hypertrophic tuberculosis of the pyloroduodenal area: report of 2 cases.

Tuberculosis of the stomach and duodenum is rare in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Primary involvement is even rarer. Two cases of primary tuberculosis of the localised to the pyloro-duodenal area are presented. The most common symptoms are non-specific leading to a difficulty in establishing a pre-operative diagnosis. A high degree of suspicion is therefore required for its diagnosis and to differentiate it from more frequent causes of gastric outlet obstruction such as chronic peptic ulcer disease and gastric carcinoma. The treatment of gastric tuberculosis is primarily medical with anti-tuberculous drug therapy. The role of surgery lies in the cases with obstruction following hypertrophic tuberculosis. The surgery done is usually a gastroenterostomy. With the relative rate of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis increasing, tuberculosis of the pyloro-duodenal area should be considered in the differential diagnosis of gastric outlet obstruction.

Prepyloric diaphragm detected following foreign body ingestion.

Prepyloric diaphragms are unusual and are usually detected in adulthood. We report a five-year-old boy who presented with history of ingestion of a coin and was found to have a prepyloric diaphragms on laparotomy.