Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 298381, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/298381
Clinical Study

Duodenal Bulb Mucosa with Hypertrophic Gastric Oxyntic Heterotopia in Patients with Zollinger Ellison Syndrome

Emil Kohan,1 David Oh,1,2 Hank Wang,1 Salar Hazany,1 Gordon Ohning,1,2 and Joseph R. Pisegna1,2

1CURE: VA/UCLA Digestive Disease Research Center, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 11301 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA

Received 1 February 2009; Accepted 7 May 2009

Academic Editor: Yang K. Chen

Copyright © 2009 Emil Kohan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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