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- Title
Polyp Clearance via Operative and Endoscopic Polypectomy in Patients With Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome After Multiple Small Bowel Resections.
- Authors
Do Hyun Lee; Hyun Deok Shin; Woo Hee Cho; Kyoung Hwang Shin; Sora Lee; Jeong Eun Shin; Hwan Namgung; Ji Eun Gwon
- Abstract
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disease that manifests as a combination of mucocutaneous pigmentation and gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps that usually cause intussusception and intestinal hemorrhage. We report the case of a 40-year-old male patient who was diagnosed 20 years ago and had previously undergone 3 intestinal resection surgeries. This time, with the use of combined operative and endoscopic polypectomy, more than 100 polyps were removed. This technique is useful for providing a "clean" small intestine that allows the patient a long interval between laparotomies and reduces the complications associated with multiple laparotomies and resections.
- Subjects
PEUTZ-Jeghers syndrome; POLYPS; ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINAL surgery; ABDOMINAL surgery
- Publication
Intestinal Research, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 4, p320
- ISSN
1598-9100
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5217/ir.2014.12.4.320