Congenital Microgastria without Concomitant Anomalies in Adult

Abstract

: Congenital microgastria is an extremely rare anomaly of which only 60 cases have been described in the literature. Congenital microgastria has been known as a result of impairment of normal foregut development. This report describes gastric variation found in the cadaver of 74-year-old Korean woman during educational cadaveric dissection in the anatomy laboratory. The stomach in this cadaver had the tubular form with a narrow body. Gross anatomical and histological studies were performed. It was confirmed that there was no history of stomach related disease or surgery before the decease. The arrangement of the small intestine was observed normally. The right and left gastro-omental arteries, which were surrounded by the greater omentum, ran along the greater curvature of the stomach and anastomosed with each other. The histological characteristics of the tissues from each region were same as it observed in the normal stomach. This case report shows an extremely rare congenital microgastria without other congenital anomalies in adult.