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Asymptomatic Gastric Giant Polyp in a Boy with Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome Presented with Multiple Café Au Lait Traits

Authors :
Christos Plataras
Efstratios Christianakis
Florentia Fostira
George Bourikis
Maria Chorti
Dimitrios Bourikas
Nikolaos Fotopoulos
Konstantinos Damalas
Khalil Eirekat
Source :
Case Reports in Surgery, Vol 2018 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Wiley, 2018.

Abstract

We describe an asymptomatic case of PJS in a six-year-old boy with café au lait spots in several parts of his body, a large gastroduodenal polyp, two polyps near the ampulla of Vater, and another in the jejunum. This patient shows some unique aspects of PJS. No other such large gastric polyp in a Peutz-Jeghers child is reported in the literature. The large size of the gastric polyp with lack of symptoms is unusual and poses a unique challenge in terms of management and surgical resection.

Subjects

Subjects :
Surgery
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Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20906900 and 20906919
Volume :
2018
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Case Reports in Surgery
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.7c0431681a74e8298eddfdd379a3f02
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6895974