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  1. João Pedro Pereira1,
  2. Joanne Lopes2,
  3. Fatima Carneiro2,
  4. Francisco Baldaque-Silva1,3
  1. 1Gastroenterology Department and Advanced Endoscopy Center 'Carlos Moreira da Silva', Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
  2. 2Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal
  3. 3Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  1. Correspondence to Dr João Pedro Pereira; jpmapereira{at}gmail.com

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Introduction

A 54-year-old female patient with dyspepsia, with no alarm signs or symptoms, no relevant personal or family history and no changes on physical examination underwent gastroscopy that revealed a flat, slightly elevated, irregular and yellowish subepithelial lesion in the fundus (figure 1a). Endoscopic ultrasound revealed an irregular, hyperechoic lesion in the submucosa 4 mm×20 mm in size and with a negative Doppler signal (figure 1b). Following multidisciplinary discussion, the lesion was resected by endoscopic submucosal dissection (figure 1c).

Figure 1

(a) Gastroscopy showing a flat, slightly elevated and irregular lesion in …

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Footnotes

  • Contributors Conceptualisation: JPP, JL, FC, FB-S. Investigation: JPP, JL, FC, FB-S. Validation: JPP, JL, FC, FB-S. Writing—original draft: JPP, FB-S. Writing—review and editing: JPP, JL, FC, FB-S. Guarantor of the article: JPP.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.