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Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction

A choristoma is a tumor-like outgrowth consisting of heterotopic, histologically mature tissue located at an anatomically unusual part of the body. Salivary gland choristoma at the gastrointestinal junction (GEJ) is an extremely rare entity with only one other case reported in the literature. In thi...

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Autores principales: Hanke, Rachel, Comba, Isin, Henriquez, Richard, W. Crespo, Maria, Bhatia, Lakhinder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257683
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7138
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author Hanke, Rachel
Comba, Isin
Henriquez, Richard
W. Crespo, Maria
Bhatia, Lakhinder
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description A choristoma is a tumor-like outgrowth consisting of heterotopic, histologically mature tissue located at an anatomically unusual part of the body. Salivary gland choristoma at the gastrointestinal junction (GEJ) is an extremely rare entity with only one other case reported in the literature. In this report, we present the case of an 87-year-old female with long-standing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) history who was incidentally found to have salivary gland choristoma at GEJ through an upper endoscopy-guided biopsy. We suggest that the finding of salivary gland choristoma at the GEJ could be metaplasia secondary to the patient’s long-standing history of GERD with esophagitis.
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spelling pubmed-71052562020-04-02 Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction Hanke, Rachel Comba, Isin Henriquez, Richard W. Crespo, Maria Bhatia, Lakhinder Cureus Internal Medicine A choristoma is a tumor-like outgrowth consisting of heterotopic, histologically mature tissue located at an anatomically unusual part of the body. Salivary gland choristoma at the gastrointestinal junction (GEJ) is an extremely rare entity with only one other case reported in the literature. In this report, we present the case of an 87-year-old female with long-standing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) history who was incidentally found to have salivary gland choristoma at GEJ through an upper endoscopy-guided biopsy. We suggest that the finding of salivary gland choristoma at the GEJ could be metaplasia secondary to the patient’s long-standing history of GERD with esophagitis. Cureus 2020-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7105256/ /pubmed/32257683 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7138 Text en Copyright © 2020, Hanke et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hanke, Rachel
Comba, Isin
Henriquez, Richard
W. Crespo, Maria
Bhatia, Lakhinder
Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction
title Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction
title_full Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction
title_fullStr Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction
title_full_unstemmed Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction
title_short Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction
title_sort salivary gland choristoma: a rare finding at the gastroesophageal junction
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7105256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257683
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7138
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