Parietal Cell Dysfunction: A Rare Cause of Gastric Neuroendocrine Neoplasm with Achlorhydria and Extreme Hypergastrinemia.

A 69-year-old woman with multiple neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) was referred to our hospital. Although she had extreme hypergastrinemia (11,675 pg/mL), no findings that indicated types I to III gastric NENs were found. Although gastric corpus atrophy was suspected on conventional white-light imaging, findings on magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging indicated no severe atrophy. A biopsy from the background fundic gland mucosa revealed no atrophic changes, parietal cells with vacuolated cytoplasm and negative findings for H+K+-ATPase. Thus, this case was diagnosed as multiple NENs with parietal cell dysfunction. Neither progression nor metastasis has been confirmed during two-year follow-up.

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Yasuaki Abe, Waku Hatta, Sho Asonuma, Tomoyuki Koike, Hiroko Abe, Yohei Ogata, Masahiro Saito, Xiaoyi Jin, Takeshi Kanno, Kaname Uno, Naoki Asano, Akira Imatani, Fumiyoshi Fujishima, Hironobu Sasano, Atsushi Masamune. Parietal Cell Dysfunction: A Rare Cause of Gastric Neuroendocrine Neoplasm with Achlorhydria and Extreme Hypergastrinemia. Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 2022 Aug 15;61(16):2441-2448

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PMID: 35110476

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