Gastrointestinal Imaging

Hamartoma, gastric

rare gastric tumours from developmental origin that consists of muscular, epithelial and pancreatic tissue. They are also called ectopic pancreas when the amount of pancreatic tissue is abundant. They occur most frequently in the antrum of the stomach and duodenum. The tumour is usually solitary and small. It has the appearance of a smoothly lined nonpedunculated intramural lesion. Central ulceration with umbilication has been observed.

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