A Case of Giant Brunner's Gland Hyperplasia Resected by Endoscopic Polypectomy

Yusuke Kumamoto, Naoto Kurihara, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Akira Tsuyuki and Yasuo Fujishiro

Department of Surgery, Tokyo Electric Power Company's Hospital

A 37-year-old man ungiong detailed examination of an elevated lesion in the duodenum was found in upper gastrointestinal endoscopic examination to have a giant pedunculated polyp covered with normal duodenal mucosa in the bulb. After CT, MRI and endoscopic ultrasonography, we conducted endoscopic polypectomy. The resected 35×25×25 mm specimen was pathologically diagnosed as Brunner's gland hyperplasia. The patient was discharged without complication at day 11 after the treatment and he has no sign of local recurrence for one year.

Key words
Brunner's gland hyperplasia, endoscopic polypectomy

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Yusuke Kumamoto Department of Surgery, Tokyo Electric Power Company's Hospital
9-2 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, 160-0016 JAPAN

Accepted
January 26, 2005

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