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Majd Alfreijat, Majd Alfrejat1, Bassem Khalil2
1Department of Medicine, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine
|June 29, 2017
Abstract:
Heterotopic tissue is a congenital anomaly that has been previously reported. Gastric and pancreatic heterotopia are among the most studied ones. Herein, we describe a case of a combined pancreatic and gastric heterotopia that formed a mass and caused a small intestine obstruction in a 61-year-old male. We also did a brief literature review of cases with gastric and pancreatic heterotopia in adult patients.
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