A Toddler With Iron Deficiency Anemia Secondary to a Yolk Sac Tumor of the Stomach: A Case Report and Literature Review
Nabil Saleem, Pamela B Sylvestre, Franklin L Chien, Raul S Gonzalez, Jose E Velázquez Vega, Sarah Mitchell, Andrii Loboda · 2026
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Nabil Saleem and colleagues describe a stomach tumor unmasked by severe anemia in a toddler in a 2026 case report and literature review. A 23-month-old girl arrived pale and fainting, her hemoglobin down to a fraction of the normal range and iron stores essentially empty. Yolk sac tumors usually grow in ovaries or testes of adolescents; the stomach is a rare address, and a pure form there rarer still.
Her tumor marker alpha-fetoprotein ran astronomically high, pointing the search toward the germ cell tumor found in her stomach. Surgeons removed most of the stomach, and chemotherapy followed. She remains tumor-free three years later, with the marker back to undetectable. The authors' review found only twelve prior reports of pure gastric yolk sac tumors, just one in a child, making hers the first in a young girl.
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| CREATOR | Nabil Saleem, Pamela B Sylvestre, Franklin L Chien, Raul S Gonzalez, Jose E Velázquez Vega, Sarah Mitchell, Andrii Loboda |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25040 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |