Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
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Case Report

Therapeutic Management of Submucosal Gastric Tumors: A Series of Six Cases with Ectopic Pancreas in the Stomach and Description of a Novel Endoscopic Full-Thickness Resection Technique of the Gastric Wall

Rami Archid^1*, Thomas Kratt¹, Carl Christoph Schneider¹, Patrick Adam², Ahmed Othman³, Derek Zieker¹, Alfred Königsrainer¹ and Jorg Glatzle¹

¹Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Eberhard-Karls-University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany

²Institute of Pathology, Eberhard-Karls-University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany

³Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany

*Corresponding Author:

Rami Archid, MD
Dep. of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital
Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, Tuebingen, 72076, Germany
Tel: 00491799415435
E-mail: rami.archid@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Received date: May 19, 2016; Accepted date: May 30, 2016; Published date: June 5, 2016

Citation: Archid R, Kratt T, Schneider CC, Adam P, Othman A, et al. (2016) Therapeutic Management of Submucosal Gastric Tumors: A Series of Six Cases with Ectopic Pancreas in the Stomach and Description of a Novel Endoscopic Full-Thickness Resection Technique of the Gastric Wall. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 6:433. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000433

Copyright: © 2016 Archid R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License; which permits unrestricted use; distribution; and reproduction in any medium; provided the original author and source are credited.

Ectopic pancreas is a benign congenital abnormality, defined as pancreatic tissue that lacks anatomic or vascular continuity to the pancreas. An incidence of 0.55%-13% has been described in autopsy studies. Ectopic pancreas is most commonly found in the upper GI-Tract.

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