A Case of Rare Small Bowel Tumor in a Child and Review of Literature.

Abstract

Small bowel tumors are amongst the rarest types of childhood malignancies, and accounts for only 2 % of all gastrointestinal (GI) cancers across all age groups. An overwhelming 98 % of malignant neoplasms of small bowel are comprised of adenocarcinomas, carcinoid tumors, lymphomas or sarcoma/gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). The less common benign small bowel tumors include hyperplastic polyps, adenomas, GISTs, lipomas, hemangiomas and those associated with Peutz Jeghers syndrome. We encountered a child with rare variant of small intestinal tumor involving the jejunum. We present this case along with a review of the literature.