Cowden's disease diagnosed through mucocutaneous lesions and gastrointestinal polyposis with recurrent hematochezia, unrevealed by initial diagnosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 559-563

  Kato, Masako ^a   Mizuki, Akira ^a   Hayashi, Tatsuhiko ^a   Kunihiro, Takamu ^a   Nagata, Hiroshi ^a   Tsukada, Nobuhiro ^a   Orikasa, Hideki ^a   Morinaga, Shojiroh ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver hemangioma; Multiple hamartoma syndrome; Thyroid tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYP; SKIN DISEASE; THYROID TUMOR;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HAMARTOMA SYNDROME, MULTIPLE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPS; SKIN DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034222104     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.559     Document Type: Article

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