Sonography of focal foveolar hyperplasia causing gastric obstruction in an infant.
A young infant is presented with a mass partially obstructing the distal stomach. Sonography demonstrated the superficial origin of the lobulated lesion which proved to be focal foveolar hyperplasia, the most common cause of a gastric polypoid mass in adults but rare in children.
McAlister
W H
WH
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Katz
M E
ME
Perlman
J M
JM
Tack
E D
ED
D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011127:Polyps / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014463:Ultrasonography