Gastric heterotopia (GH) is a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding. GH of the small bowel is rare, and the duodenum is more commonly involved than the jejunum. Here, we present five cases of GH involving the duodenum and jejunum, with presentations including gastrointestinal bleeding, symptomatic anemia, and no symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGallstones causing bowel obstruction, known as gallstone ileus, are rare and account for less than 0.5% of small bowel obstruction cases. Additionally, it is a rare complication affecting only 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntimitochondrial antibody-positive primary biliary cholangitis (AMA-pos PBC) is an autoimmune disorder in which monoclonal antibodies are produced against epitopes in the mitochondrial membranes of biliary epithelial cells, resulting in progressive nonsuppurative biliary cholangitis. Up to 5% of patients lack these autoantibodies, termed antimitochondrial antibody-negative (AMA-neg) PBC. Although a somewhat new variant of AMA-pos PBC, it is not an overlapping syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This is a unique case of a patient who was found to have two extremely rare primary malignancies synchronously, , an ampullary adenocarcinoma arising from a high-grade dysplastic tubulovillous adenoma of the ampulla of Vater (TVAoA) with a high-grade ileal gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). Based on a literature review and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of this synchronicity. Primary ampullary tumors are extremely rare, with an incidence of four cases million population, which is approximately 0.
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