Giant inflammatory polyposis in ulcerative colitis presenting with protein losing enteropathy.
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Diffuse Giant Inflammatory Polyposis at the Onset of Ulcerative Colitis, Presenting with Protein-losing Enteropathy and Masquerading as Intestinal Intussusception
Inflammatory polyposis (IP) in ulcerative colitis (UC) appears most often over the course of the disease, being very rarely described as a presenting feature. Giant IP (> 1.5 cm in diameter or length) is very uncommon and most reported cases have had a localized form. We report a case of a male teenager, who was admitted in our clinic after 16 days of abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. He was ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.43.4.346-b