Abstract:Duodenal diverticula are common findings during barium meal studies, and are usually asymptomatic. 1 Symptoms and complications are rare and usually due to biliary and pancreatic abnormalities, perforation, hemorrhage, inflammation, bezoar formation and neoplasia. [2][3][4][5] We report on two patients in whom a filling defect was noted within a periampullary duodenal diverticulum on barium meal studies, confirmed by endoscopy to be due to a pseudotumor caused by a bezoar and redundant prominent mucosal folds.… Show more
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