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[Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome with Adenomatous Change in a Fifteen-month-old Boy].
The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi - 1 Aug 2015
Lee Kun Song, Lee Seung Ho, Myong Na-Hye
Abstract excerpt
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a very rare genetic disorder. PJS carries a high risk of developing gastrointestinal (GI) cancer or non-GI cancer with advancing years. However, major symptoms of PJS in childhood are obstruction, intussusception, and bleeding from hamartomatous intestinal polyps which in majority of cases are not related to cancer. Generally, first GI symptom develops by 20 years in one half of...
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