Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT

Chronkhite-Canada is a rare nonfamilial polyposis syndrome that usually presents as chronic malabsorption in adults. We present a case of a-73-year old woman with chronic gastrointestinal bleeding and malnutrition. On CT imaging she was found to have massive gastric polyps, which on biopsy was most...

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Autores principales: Samet, Jonathan D., Horton, Karen M., Fishman, Elliot K., Iacobuzio-Donahue, Christine A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19721708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/148795
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author Samet, Jonathan D.
Horton, Karen M.
Fishman, Elliot K.
Iacobuzio-Donahue, Christine A.
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Horton, Karen M.
Fishman, Elliot K.
Iacobuzio-Donahue, Christine A.
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description Chronkhite-Canada is a rare nonfamilial polyposis syndrome that usually presents as chronic malabsorption in adults. We present a case of a-73-year old woman with chronic gastrointestinal bleeding and malnutrition. On CT imaging she was found to have massive gastric polyps, which on biopsy was most consistent with Cronkhite-Canada syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-27292392009-08-31 Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT Samet, Jonathan D. Horton, Karen M. Fishman, Elliot K. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Christine A. Case Rep Med Case Report Chronkhite-Canada is a rare nonfamilial polyposis syndrome that usually presents as chronic malabsorption in adults. We present a case of a-73-year old woman with chronic gastrointestinal bleeding and malnutrition. On CT imaging she was found to have massive gastric polyps, which on biopsy was most consistent with Cronkhite-Canada syndrome. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2009-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2729239/ /pubmed/19721708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/148795 Text en Copyright © 2009 Jonathan D. Samet et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT
title Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT
title_full Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT
title_fullStr Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT
title_full_unstemmed Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT
title_short Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Gastric Involvement Diagnosed by MDCT
title_sort cronkhite-canada syndrome: gastric involvement diagnosed by mdct
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19721708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/148795
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