Unusual gastric tumour in an adolescent: primary gastric teratoma

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. e236858
Author(s):  
Rahul Kumar ◽  
Tripti Prajapati ◽  
Rahul Verma ◽  
Pankaj Kumar Garg

Gastric teratoma is a rare entity beyond infancy and usually presents as a slow-growing asymptomatic abdominal mass. There are a few published reports of these tumours seen in patients beyond the age of 1 year. In resource-constrained population, these masses are usually neglected because of minimal symptoms associated with these tumours. We report a case of a 14-year-old adolescent who was diagnosed to have a large primary gastric teratoma and underwent en bloc excision with wedge resection of the stomach. A systematic review to identify the previously reported cases of primary gastric teratoma in patients of over the age of 1 year in last 50 years yielded only five articles. A high index of suspicion for primary gastric teratomas in young children and adolescents presenting with asymptomatic large abdominal masses would help treat these patients with a curative intent and excellent treatment outcomes.

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-399
Author(s):  
CHANDER GROVER ◽  
SHIKHA BANSAL ◽  
SONI NANDA ◽  
BSN. REDDY ◽  
VIJAY KUMAR

2017 ◽  
pp. bcr-2017-220216
Author(s):  
Mahima Jhingan ◽  
Jay Chhablani ◽  
Komal Agarwal ◽  
Padmaja Kumari Rani

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Valery Coumans ◽  
Brian P. Walcott ◽  
Navid Redjal ◽  
Kristopher T. Kahle ◽  
Brian V. Nahed

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elroy P Weledji ◽  
Theophile C Nana

Abstract An incisional hernia is usually a defect in the scar of an abdominal surgery. The natural history is intestinal obstruction with the risk of strangulation. We report a case of a long-term conservative management of an incisional hernia with an abdominal corset. This resulted in fistulation from pressure necrosis that required an en-bloc excision of the incarcerated fistulating bowel with the hernia sac. The defect was managed using the Jenkin’s ‘mass closure’ technique with no recurrence of the hernia.


2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. e417-e423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel C.R. Pallapati ◽  
Binu Prathap Thomas ◽  
George A. Anderson

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