Clinico-pathologic conference: 12-year-old girl with fatigue, anemia, weight loss, abdominal distention, and occasional nausea and vomiting.
A clinicopathologic case is presented. The patient was a 12-year-old white girl with a history of fatigue and dizziness, occasional nausea and vomiting, and anemia, who showed abdominal distention, especially in the epigastrium. An epigastric mass was palpable. Gastroscopy was done, and surgery followed. Pertinent laboratory findings are presented, and clinical discussion follows. The pathology is then presented and discussed.
Reinstein
L Julio
LJ
University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Ahmed
Afif
A
Gilbert-Barness
Enid
E
Pomerance
Herbert H
HH
D000005:Abdomen / Q000473:pathology; D000740:Anemia / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009325:Nausea / Q000209:etiology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology; D015431:Weight Loss