PURPOSE A duodenal stump fistula is one of the most severe complications after gastrectomy for gastric cancer. We aimed to analyze the risk factors for this problem, and to identify the methods used for its prevention and management. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 716 consecutive patients who underwent curative gastrectomy with a duodenal stump for gastric cancer bet...

Isolated gastric tuberculosis is a rare condition, even in those parts of the world where intestinal tuberculosis is common. Herein we describe a case of a thirty year old female patient with isolated gastric tuberculosis who presented with features of gastric outlet obstruction.

Gastric outlet obstruction is a common entity described with numerous benign and malignant causes. Historically, benign causes include Peptic Ulcer disease (PUD); however recent cases have reported other causes including Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis (EGE), Brunner’s Gland Hyperplasia (BGH) and Pancreatic Heterotopia (PH). We present an unusual case of a 31 year old male patient with severe gast...

A case of Brunneroma causing gastric outlet obstruction is presented with radiological, endoscopical findings which was removed laparoscopically.

Gastric Outlet Obstruction (GOO) due to impaction of a gallstone in the duodenum after migration through a bilioduodenal fistula is known as Bouveret's syndrome. Its clinical symptoms are entirely vague and nonspecific. Because of its rarity, insidiousness and unpredictable symptomatology, Bouveret's syndrome is never thought of in the differential diagnosis as aetiology of gastric outlet obstr...

Patients with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer are typically burdened by many symptoms that impair functioning and worsen quality of life. We report an exceptional case of a 73-year-old woman with T4N1M0 adenocarcinoma of the uncinate process of the pancreas who developed significant gastric outlet obstruction - an uncommon yet potentially life-threatening complication of disease progression. S...

CASE REPORT A 71-year-old lady presented with acute cholecystitis which settled with conservative treatment. She was readmitted four months later with another attack of acute cholecystitis. Three days after admission she began to vomit repeatedly. She had a positive succussion splash consistent with a diagnosis of gastric outlet obstruction. She was treated initially with nasogastric aspiration...

Bouveret's syndrome, first described in 1896 by Léon Bouveret, is rare, limited to approximately 200 published case reports to date [Ariche et al.: Scand J Gastroenterol 2000;35:781-783]. It is a subgroup of gallstone ileus in which a cholecystoduodenal fistula allows the passage of a gallstone that obstructs the duodenum, causing gastric outlet obstruction. This case is unique as it describes ...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumours (IMTs) of the duodenum and head of the pancreas are rare. They are of probable immunological aetiology and preoperatively indistinguishable from adenocarcinomas of the pancreatic head. We describe a patient with duodenal IMT and gastric outlet obstruction, and present a review of pancreatic head and duodenal IMTs in the literature. IMTs of the pancreatic hea...