Rectal gastric heterotopia: A rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding
International Journal of Development Research
Rectal gastric heterotopia: A rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding
Received 12th August, 2018; Received in revised form 19th September, 2018; Accepted 26th October, 2018; Published online 30th November, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Elias Makhoul et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Heterotopia is defined as the presence of normal tissue type at non-physiological sites. Gastric heterotopia (GHT) is the most reported epithelial heterotopia. It can occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. Most cases are described in the esophagus, duodenum and Meckel’s diverticulum. It’s rarely observed in the rectum and anus. In this report, we present a case of 48 year old women with a 3cm ulcer in the rectum that was reported histologically as antral type heterotopic gastric mucosa without amelioration to proton pump inhibitors and who underwent endoscopic resection for definite treatment.
