title: Menetrier`s disease in a Saudi child.
abstract: Menetrier`s disease is a rare form of acquired gastropathy that presents mostly during adulthood, but is extremely rare in children. It is a clinicopathological diagnosis that typically presents with abdominal pain, vomiting, and edema secondary to hypoalbuminemia. Endoscopy usually shows giant gastric mucosal folds, and gastric biopsy shows foveolar hyperplasia and decreased oxyntic glands. Here, we describe a 5-year-old boy from Saudi Arabia with typical presentation of Menetrier`s disease and serological evidence of acute cytomegalovirus infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Fahad A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Alfares
authors.forename: Emad M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Raddaoui
authors.forename: Mohammad I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: El-Mouzan
authors.forename: Abdullah A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Alangari
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D013270:Stomach / Q000473:pathology