Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
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Case Report

Gastric Duplication Complicated by Malignant Transformation in Adults: Report of Three Cases

Yimiao Zhu^1,2, Lihong LV^1,3, Wensheng Pan^1,2*, Pingping Ren⁴, Tiemei Han¹ and Xiang Xu⁵

¹Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China

²Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital Binjiang Campus, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China

³Department of Gastroenterology, Xianju People’s Hospital, Zhejiang Province, 325000, China

⁴Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital Binjiang Campus, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China

⁵Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China

*Corresponding Author:

Wensheng Pan, MD, PhD.
Professor of Gastroenterology, Consultant Gastroenterologist
Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital
Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 88# Jiefang Road
Hangzhou 310009, China
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E-mail: wspan223@163.com

Received date: November 17, 2015 Accepted date: December 22, 2015 Published date: December 29, 2015

Citation: Zhu Y, Lihong LV, Pan W, Ren P, Han T, et al. (2015) Gastric Duplication Complicated by Malignant Transformation in Adults: Report of Three Cases . J Gastrointest Dig Syst 5:374. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000374

Copyright: © 2015 Zhu Y, et al. 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.

Gastric duplication anomaly is an uncommon congenital disease, mostly reported in children. Malignant transformation of the duplication lesion is extremely rare, with only 11 cases reported in the English literature. Here we report three cases of early cancer found in gastric duplications or the adjacent gastric wall. Out of these three cases, one is an early cancer arising from the duplication lesion, one from the gastric wall and another form both. To the best of our knowledge, early cancer arising from both the duplication cyst and the adjacent wall is first reported. Once detected gastric duplication, surgical resection is recommended because of its potential for malignant transformation.

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