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An unusual gastric tumour with gastric outlet obstruction
  1. I-Lin Frank Chen1,
  2. Kai-Wen Liu2,
  3. Tao-Qian Tang1,
  4. Wen-Lun Wang1
  1. 1 Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  2. 2 Department of Pathology, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Wen-Lun Wang, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 82445, Taiwan; warrengodr{at}gmail.com

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A 62-year-old male without significant medical history presented with intermittent epigastric pain and abdominal fullness for 2 months. He denied having bloody stool or weight loss. He visited the outpatient department, where the CT scan of abdomen was performed (figure 1). He then underwent oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), which revealed a subepithelial tumour at gastric antrum with obstruction of the pylorus (figure 2 and video in the online supplementary file 1). Endoscopic ultrasound sonography (EUS) was performed …

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  • Contributors I-LFC prepared the manuscript and K-WL interpreted the histopathologic results. T-QT and W-LW coordinated the study with critical improvement to the article.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.