Autopsy and Case Reports (Dec 2013)

Pyloric Brunner’s gland hamartoma with atypical hyperplasia

  • Luciano Lenz,
  • Aloisio Felipe-Silva,
  • Frank Nakao,
  • Nelson Miyajima,
  • Ermelindo Della Libera,
  • Dalton Marques Chaves,
  • Beatriz Monica Sugai,
  • Maria Rachel da Silveira Rohr

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4

Abstract

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Brunner’s gland hamartoma (BGH) is an extremely rare benign digestive tumor, generally located in the duodenal bulb. We report the case of a 51-year-old asymptomatic man with a large pedunculated BGH arising from the pylorus. It was successfully removed en bloc by endoscopic resection.

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