Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports (Apr 2018)

Gastric diverticulum causing gastric outlet obstruction in the setting of duodenal atresia

  • Devashis Mukherjee,
  • Benjamin Sopczynski,
  • Martin Espinosa,
  • Pavan Brahmamdam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsc.2018.02.015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31
pp. 84 – 87

Abstract

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Duodenal obstruction due to duodenal atresia occurs in 1 in 10,000 live births and is the most common type of intestinal obstruction in neonates [1–3]. Gastric outlet obstruction in the newborn period from causes other than hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is very uncommon [3]. Potential etiologies include gastric volvulus, antral web, and duplication cysts. Gastric diverticula in the infant is even more rare, with only a few case reports published, and only one describes a gastric diverticulum in the presence of a duodenal atresia [4–8]. In this report, we describe the first case of a gastric outlet obstruction due to a gastric diverticulum in the presence of duodenal atresia. Keywords: Duodenal atresia, Gastric diverticulum, Gastric outlet obstruction