Cronkhite - Canada Syndrome without Colonic Polyps
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Polyps! Polyps! And More Polyps! - The First Case of Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome in Malaysia.
Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome (CCS) is a syndrome characterised by a constellation of signs including but not limited to onychodystrophy of the finger and toe nails, skin hyperpigmentation and alopecia. Endoscopic features showed hamartomatous polyps involving all segments of the gastrointestinal tract with the characteristic exception of being oesophageal sparring. These polyps show confirmation b...
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A 50-year-old woman suffered from anorexia, taste disturbance and a weight loss of 13 kg over a period of 6 months. Physical examination showed onychotrophia (Picture 1), skin pigmentation (Picture 2) and alopecia. Gastroscopy revealed multiple reddish sessile polyps in the antrum and anglus of the stomach (Picture 3). Colonoscopy revealed multiple reddish sessile polyps through the colon and i...
متن کاملCronkhite-Canada syndrome.
Cronkhite-Canada syndrome is one of the rare causes of multiple polyposis, characterised by generalised gastrointestinal polyposis, cutaneous hyperpigmentation, alopecia, and nail dystrophy.' Although Cronkhite and Canada described it for the first time in 1955, little is known about its aetiology and the prognosis remains poor. We describe a case of CronkhiteCanada syndrome in a 79-year-old Ja...
متن کاملThe Cronkhite-Canada syndrome
The eighteenth patient and seventh survivor with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome is described. A remission of 9 years followed gastrectomy and steroid therapy. Findings on seventeen other patients described in the literature are reviewed. The histological features are discussed in detail. The jejunum, though macroscopically normal, showed oedema, increased vascularity and mucous gland secreting a...
متن کامل[The Cronkhite-Canada syndrome].
The eighteenth patient and seventh survivor with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome is described. A remission of 9 years followed gastrectomy and steroid therapy. Findings on seventeen other patients described in the literature are reviewed. The histological features are discussed in detail. The jejunum, though macroscopically normal, showed oedema, increased vascularity and mucous gland secreting a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1004206