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Neonatal Gardner fibroma: a sentinel presentation of severe familial adenomatous polyposis.
Pediatrics - 1 Dec 2010
Levesque Sebastien, Ahmed Najma, Nguyen Van-Hung, Nahal Ayoub, Blumenkrantz Miriam, Puligandla Pramod, Chong George, Foulkes William D
Abstract excerpt
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a rare cause of colorectal cancer and rarely presents in early childhood. Various extracolonic manifestations, however, may be present before the development of overt polyposis. One of the rarest manifestations is the Gardner fibroma (GAF), which has particular histologic features. Here we report the case of a child who presented in the neonatal period with a paraspinal...
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