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- Title
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome.
- Authors
Mallory, Susan B.; Krafchik, Bernice R.; Bishop, Phyllis; Loftis, Sonya; Nowicki, Michael
- Abstract
Describes the case of a 12-year-old girl who presented with a history of intermittent abdominal pain and who was diagnosed with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Dark-brown pigmented lesions on the lower lip; Confirmation of all the polyps as Peutz-Jeghers polyps through histology; Definition of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome as an autosomal dominant inherited condition characterized by mucocutaneous pigmentation and gastrointestinal polyps; Classification of gastrointestinal polyps as hamartomas.
- Subjects
ABDOMINAL pain in children; POLYPS; HISTOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL diseases; LIPS; DISEASES in girls
- Publication
Pediatric Dermatology, 2004, Vol 21, Issue 4, p503
- ISSN
0736-8046
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0736-8046.2004.21420.x