Zollinger-Ellison syndrome in a 12-year-old child

• Main Authors: Abir Lal Nath (Author), Nandita A Saxena (Author), Bharati K Kulkarni (Author), Shyam S Borwankar (Author), Hemant N Lahoti (Author), Sanjay N Oak (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The syndrome described by Zollinger and Ellison in 1955 is a rare clinical entity which is even rarer in children. This report describes a 12-year-old boy who presented with refractory peptic ulcer disease which was finally diagnosed to be due to a gastrinoma and was successfully treated.