Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent

Gastric diverticula rarely occur in adolescence. In adults, they are predominantly congenital, asymptomatic, and are located adjacent to the gastroesophageal junction on the posterior aspect of the stomach wall. In this report we present a 14-year-old female who underwent laparoscopic gastric divert...

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Autores principales: French, Jerry, Meyers, Arthur, Mills, Jennifer, Adamson, William, Westmoreland, Tamarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pediatric Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7686928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33251068
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11161
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author French, Jerry
Meyers, Arthur
Mills, Jennifer
Adamson, William
Westmoreland, Tamarah
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description Gastric diverticula rarely occur in adolescence. In adults, they are predominantly congenital, asymptomatic, and are located adjacent to the gastroesophageal junction on the posterior aspect of the stomach wall. In this report we present a 14-year-old female who underwent laparoscopic gastric diverticulectomy after incidental discovery on magnetic resonance urography.
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spelling pubmed-76869282020-11-27 Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent French, Jerry Meyers, Arthur Mills, Jennifer Adamson, William Westmoreland, Tamarah Cureus Pediatric Surgery Gastric diverticula rarely occur in adolescence. In adults, they are predominantly congenital, asymptomatic, and are located adjacent to the gastroesophageal junction on the posterior aspect of the stomach wall. In this report we present a 14-year-old female who underwent laparoscopic gastric diverticulectomy after incidental discovery on magnetic resonance urography. Cureus 2020-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7686928/ /pubmed/33251068 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11161 Text en Copyright © 2020, French 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.
spellingShingle Pediatric Surgery
French, Jerry
Meyers, Arthur
Mills, Jennifer
Adamson, William
Westmoreland, Tamarah
Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent
title Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent
title_full Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent
title_fullStr Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent
title_full_unstemmed Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent
title_short Laparoscopic Resection of a Gastric Diverticulum in an Adolescent
title_sort laparoscopic resection of a gastric diverticulum in an adolescent
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7686928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33251068
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11161
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