RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Menetrier’s disease in a Saudi child
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1192
OP 1194
VO 34
IS 11
A1 Alfares, Fahad A.
A1 Raddaoui, Emad M.
A1 El-Mouzan, Mohammad I.
A1 Alangari, Abdullah A.
YR 2013
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/34/11/1192.abstract
AB Menetrier’s disease is a rare form of acquired gastropathy that presents mostly during adulthood, but is extremely rare in children. It is a clinicopathological diagnosis that typically presents with abdominal pain, vomiting, and edema secondary to hypoalbuminemia. Endoscopy usually shows giant gastric mucosal folds, and gastric biopsy shows foveolar hyperplasia and decreased oxyntic glands. Here, we describe a 5-year-old boy from Saudi Arabia with typical presentation of Menetrier’s disease and serological evidence of acute cytomegalovirus infection.