Article
Surgical Treatment and Postoperative Surveillance for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
2025-01-09
Abstract excerpt
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a genetic disease caused by an APC mutation. It develops into multiple adenomatous polyps when patients are in their early 20s and eventually transforms into colorectal cancer at 100% penetrance unless treated. Therefore, prophylactic surgery is recommended as the only effective treatment option. However, individual approaches, such as total colectomy with ileorectal anastom...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bc457298-cbbd-58a9-80bc-7d051416cfe2
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202501.0762.v1
