Menetrier‘s disease, an uncommon disease and a diagnostic challenge: Case Report

Abstract

Acquired hypoproteinemic, hypertrophic gastropathy also known as Menetrier’s disease is one of the infrequently encountered disorders in clinical practice. Understanding of the pathogenesis, diagnostic features and course of this disease is important as the symptoms may closely resemble a variety of other conditions like malignancies. one of the case control studies, the disease is found to be associated with increased mortality and can predispose to adenocarcinoma