Rectal gastric heterotopia in infancy.
Heterotopic gastric mucosa is rare in children with most cases presenting in association with Meckel's diverticulum. The authors present a 2-year-old boy with gastric heterotopia of the anorectum, who presented with painless, intermittent rectal bleeding.
Wiersma
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Department of Paediatric Surgery, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Hadley
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Govender
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Grant
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D001004:Anus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002828:Choristoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012002:Rectal Diseases / Q000209:etiology