Prepyloric gastric inflammatory fibroid polyp presenting as chronic epigastric discomfort in a 5th decade aged female: A case report.
Case report
Chronic abdominal pain
Diagnostic challenge
Gastric inflammatory Fibroid
Gastric polyp
Surgical resection
Journal
International journal of surgery case reports
ISSN: 2210-2612
Titre abrégé: Int J Surg Case Rep
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101529872
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
06
09
2020
revised:
22
09
2020
accepted:
22
09
2020
pubmed:
4
10
2020
medline:
4
10
2020
entrez:
3
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Inflammatory fibroid polyps is a rare entity that mostly occur in the stomach. Gastric type is usually asymptomatic or may show nonspecific symptoms. Diagnosis is mainly postoperative with limited roles of usual diagnostic techniques. A 42 years old healthy female presenting with chronic symptoms for epigastric discomfort and mild nausea. Labs showed mild anemia. A gastric lesion was detected by Endoscopy and being studied by echo-endoscopy and needle aspirate. Gastric Inflammatory fibroid polyp was diagnosed after distal gastrectomy by histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Gastric inflammatory fibroid polyp is a preoperative diagnostic challenge of unclear pathogenesis. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry are the gold standard. Studies around this exact pathology are required for better management and prevention.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33010615
pii: S2210-2612(20)30825-7
doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.09.152
pmc: PMC7530196
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
49-51Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.