Alimentary tract duplications are rare congenital anomalies that occasionally contain ectopic gastric mucosa that secretes acid peptic juice and can cause pain, ulceration, bleeding and rarely perforation. We report a case of a 2-year-old girl who developed perforation of a jejunal duplication lined with ectopic gastric mucosa who was managed surgically.
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