Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Gastric hyperplastic polyp in a horse.
- Journal:
- Journal of comparative pathology
- Year:
- 1988
- Authors:
- Morse, C C & Richardson, D W
- Affiliation:
- University of Pennsylvania · United States
- Species:
- horse
Plain-English summary
A 13-year-old castrated male Arabian horse was found to have a large, 20 cm long growth in its stomach that was blocking the entrance to the small intestine and causing severe swelling in the stomach. This growth was identified as a gastric hyperplastic polyp, a type of abnormal tissue growth that has not been previously documented in horses. The findings in this case were compared to similar growths seen in humans. The treatment details and outcome were not specified in the abstract.
Abstract
An unusually large, pedunculated (20 cm long) mass arising the gastric pylorus which produced complete obstruction of the proximal duodenum and severe gastric distension was found in a 13-year old castrated male Arabian horse. The histological diagnosis was gastric hyperplastic polyp, which has not been reported previously in the horse. The clinico-pathological findings in this horse are compared with hyperplastic (inflammatory) gastric polyps of man.
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