title: Endoscopic needle aspiration of a gastric duplication cyst.
abstract: Gastric duplication cysts are rare and generally asymptomatic in adults. They are usually discovered incidentally at upper gastrointestinal endoscopy or barium contrast radiography. We report here the case of a 41-year-old woman with a gastric submucosal mass, initially diagnosed as a leiomyoma that proved to be a gastric cyst. The cyst was aspirated under direct endoscopic vision using a standard sclerotherapy needle. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a procedure.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Dam
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Carr-Locke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013396:Suction / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography