An Unusual Presentation of Gastric Diverticulum – a Rare Form of Gastrointestinal Tract Diverticulum

Gabriela Jungblut Schuh,Ivan Morzoletto Pedrollo,Sandra Jungblut Schuh,Antônio Carlos Maciel

doi:10.22491/2357-9730.99838

Abstract

In this report, we present two cases of gastric diverticulum (GD) documented by upper gastrointestinal contrast radiographic studies and computed tomography (CT). The first one, a 51-year-old woman, has a typical presentation, with the GD occurring in the posterior wall of the fundus (figure 1). The second one, a 72-year-old woman, has a sliding diaphragmatic hernia. In this patient, the gastric fundus, which also has a diverticulum, is herniated, being located inside the thorax (figure 2 and figure 3). Both patients discovered the presence of gastric diverticula incidentally during diagnostic testing for other reasons.

Highlights

Clin Biomed Res. 2020;40(1):[58-60 1] Faculdade de Medicina, UniversidadeFederal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
A diverticulum can develop throughout the gastrointestinal tract and takes the form a pouch structure projecting outward from the canal that may contain one or more of the gastrointestinal tract layers[1]
Detection rates vary with the study method, ranging from 0.02% in autopsy studies to 0.04% in upper gastrointestinal contrast radiographic studies and 0.01-0.11% in upper gastrointestinal endoscopies[3]

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Introduction

Clin Biomed Res. 2020;40(1):[58-60 1] Faculdade de Medicina, UniversidadeFederal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Clin Biomed Res. 2020;40(1):[58-60 1] Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade. We report two cases of gastric diverticulum (GD) documented by upper gastrointestinal contrast radiographic studies and computed tomography (CT). The first case is a 51-year-old woman with a typical presentation of GD occurring on the posterior wall of the fundus (Figure 1). The second case is a 72-year-old woman with sliding diaphragmatic hernia. In this patient, the gastric fundus, which has a diverticulum, is herniated and located inside the thorax (Figure 2 and Figure 3). The gastric fundus, which has a diverticulum, is herniated and located inside the thorax (Figure 2 and Figure 3) Both patients discovered the presence of GD incidentally during diagnostic testing for other reasons

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