Spontaneous regression of rectal polyps following abdominal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for familial adenomatous polyposis, without sulindac treatment: Report of four cases

Endoscopy

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 665-668

  Filippakis, G M ^a   Zografos, G ^a   Pararas, N ^a   Lanitis, S ^b   Georgiadou, D ^a   Filippakis, M G ^c  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Evgenidion Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULINDAC;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FAMILIAL ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; MALE; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; POLYPS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547102230     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966643     Document Type: Article

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