A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man

Colonic hamartomas are rare polypoid lesions. We report an unusual case of multiple colonic hamartomatous polyps, including a giant hamartoma, unrelated to hereditary or familial polyposis syndromes, in a 48-year-old man. The diameter of the largest polyp was 9.5 cm, and endoscopy revealed that the...

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Autores principales: Park, In Ja, Kim, Hee Cheol, Yu, Chang Sik, Koo, Hyun Lyung, Kim, Jung Sun, Kim, Jin Cheon
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Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17066524
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.5.755
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author Park, In Ja
Kim, Hee Cheol
Yu, Chang Sik
Koo, Hyun Lyung
Kim, Jung Sun
Kim, Jin Cheon
author_facet Park, In Ja
Kim, Hee Cheol
Yu, Chang Sik
Koo, Hyun Lyung
Kim, Jung Sun
Kim, Jin Cheon
author_sort Park, In Ja
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description Colonic hamartomas are rare polypoid lesions. We report an unusual case of multiple colonic hamartomatous polyps, including a giant hamartoma, unrelated to hereditary or familial polyposis syndromes, in a 48-year-old man. The diameter of the largest polyp was 9.5 cm, and endoscopy revealed that the lesion caused colonic obstruction. The clinical, endoscopic and histological aspects of this case are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-26877662009-06-04 A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man Park, In Ja Kim, Hee Cheol Yu, Chang Sik Koo, Hyun Lyung Kim, Jung Sun Kim, Jin Cheon Yonsei Med J Case Report Colonic hamartomas are rare polypoid lesions. We report an unusual case of multiple colonic hamartomatous polyps, including a giant hamartoma, unrelated to hereditary or familial polyposis syndromes, in a 48-year-old man. The diameter of the largest polyp was 9.5 cm, and endoscopy revealed that the lesion caused colonic obstruction. The clinical, endoscopic and histological aspects of this case are discussed. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006-10-31 2006-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2687766/ /pubmed/17066524 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.5.755 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Park, In Ja
Kim, Hee Cheol
Yu, Chang Sik
Koo, Hyun Lyung
Kim, Jung Sun
Kim, Jin Cheon
A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man
title A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man
title_full A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man
title_fullStr A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man
title_full_unstemmed A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man
title_short A Giant Colonic Hamartoma and Multiple Colonic Hamartomatous Polyps in a Middle-Aged Man
title_sort giant colonic hamartoma and multiple colonic hamartomatous polyps in a middle-aged man
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17066524
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.5.755
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