Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception

An extremely rare case of solitary jejunal Peutz–Jeghers polyp causing intussusception in an 8-year-old boy is reported. The polyp was excised by laparoscopic-assisted surgery. This appears to be only the fourth and the youngest patient with such a polyp reported in the indexed English language lite...

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Autores principales: Kalavant, Akshay B., Menon, Prema, Mitra, Suvradeep, Thapa, Babu Ram, Narasimha Rao, Katragadda Lakshmi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28974879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.214442
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author Kalavant, Akshay B.
Menon, Prema
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Thapa, Babu Ram
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description An extremely rare case of solitary jejunal Peutz–Jeghers polyp causing intussusception in an 8-year-old boy is reported. The polyp was excised by laparoscopic-assisted surgery. This appears to be only the fourth and the youngest patient with such a polyp reported in the indexed English language literature.
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spelling pubmed-56159012017-10-04 Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception Kalavant, Akshay B. Menon, Prema Mitra, Suvradeep Thapa, Babu Ram Narasimha Rao, Katragadda Lakshmi J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report An extremely rare case of solitary jejunal Peutz–Jeghers polyp causing intussusception in an 8-year-old boy is reported. The polyp was excised by laparoscopic-assisted surgery. This appears to be only the fourth and the youngest patient with such a polyp reported in the indexed English language literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5615901/ /pubmed/28974879 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.214442 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kalavant, Akshay B.
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Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception
title Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception
title_full Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception
title_fullStr Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception
title_full_unstemmed Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception
title_short Solitary Peutz–Jeghers Polyp of Jejunum: A Rare Cause of Childhood Intussusception
title_sort solitary peutz–jeghers polyp of jejunum: a rare cause of childhood intussusception
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28974879
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