Complicated Gastric Duplication Cyst in an Adult Patient: Uncommon presentation of an uncommon disease

J Radiol Case Rep. 2017 Aug 31;11(8):16-23. doi: 10.3941/jrcr.v11i8.3124. eCollection 2017 Aug.

Abstract

Gastric duplication cyst is a very rare congenital anomaly accounting up to 4% of all gastrointestinal tract duplications. It is a quite rare anomaly in adults, the majority of the cases are diagnosed in the neonatal period. Gastric duplication cysts are usually asymptomatic or they do present with non-specific symptoms. They are usually discovered incidentally during endoscopy or laparotomy or very rarely after getting complicated. We describe herein, along with literature review, a case of an adult patient who presented with abdominal pain and bloody vomiting and turned out to have a gastric duplication cyst complicated by internal bleeding.

Keywords: Duplication cyst; Gastric duplication cyst; Hematemesis; Upper gastrointestinal bleeding; endoscopic ultrasound.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Adult
  • Cysts / congenital
  • Cysts / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cysts / pathology
  • Cysts / surgery
  • Digestive System Abnormalities / complications
  • Digestive System Abnormalities / diagnostic imaging*
  • Digestive System Abnormalities / pathology
  • Digestive System Abnormalities / surgery
  • Female
  • Hematemesis / etiology
  • Hematemesis / surgery
  • Humans
  • Stomach / abnormalities
  • Stomach / diagnostic imaging*
  • Stomach / pathology
  • Stomach / surgery