Teenagers With Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
β Scribed by JamesM. Church; Ellen McGannon; Carol Burke; Brian Clark
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-3706
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Increasing numbers of polyposis registries have led to more young patients being diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). To provide guidelines for selecting the appropriate surgical procedure in teenagers (10-19 years), we compared the results of colectomy and ileo-rectal anastomosis (I
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a dominantly inherited familial cancer syndrome characterized by an increased predisposition to colorectal cancer and other benign and malignant extracolonic lesions. FAP has been linked to germline mutations of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene that e