Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Surgical management of giant Brunner's gland hamartoma: case report and literature review | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Surgical management of giant Brunner s gland hamartoma case report and literature review Zoe A Stewart1 Ralph H Hruban2 Elliot F Fishman3 and Christopher L Wolfgang 1 Address Department of Surgery The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore Maryland USA 2Department of Pathology The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore Maryland USA and 3Department of Radiology The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore Maryland USA Email Zoe A Stewart - zstewart@ Ralph H Hruban - rhruban@ Elliot F Fishman - efishman@ Christopher L Wolfgang - cwolfga2@ Corresponding author Published 2 September 2009 Received 6 June 2009 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 68 doi 1477-7819-7-68 Accepted 2 September 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 68 2009 Stewart et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Brunner s gland hamartomas BGH are uncommon benign tumors of the duodenum forming mature Brunner s glands. We report here an unusual case of a giant BGH that was not amenable to endoscopic or surgical local resection thus requiring a pancreaticoduodenectomy for extirpation. The relevant literature is discussed. Background Brunner s gland hamartomas BGH are uncommon benign tumors of the duodenum forming mature Brunner s glands. BGH have an estimated incidence of based upon review of one large autopsy series 1 and fewer than 200 cases have been reported in the English literature. These rare tumors have a low propensity for malignant transformation but can be confused with lesions
