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Sonography of focal foveolar hyperplasia causing gastric obstruction in an infant

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A young infants is presented with a mass partially obstructing the distal stomach. Sonography demonstrated the superficial origin of the lobulated lesion which proved to be focal foveolar hyperplasia, the most common cause of a gastric polypoid mass in adults but rare in children.

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  1. Division of Neonatology, St. Louis Children's Hospital, USA

    J. M. Perlman & E. D. Tack

  2. Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Minnesota, USA

    M. E. Katz

  3. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 S. Kingshighway Boulevard, 63110, St. Louis, MO, USA

    W. H. McAlister

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McAlister, W.H., Katz, M.E., Perlman, J.M. et al. Sonography of focal foveolar hyperplasia causing gastric obstruction in an infant. Pediatr Radiol 18, 79–81 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02395770

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