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KMID : 0352419950140020137
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Keimyung Medical Journal
1995 Volume.14 No. 2 p.137 ~ p.143
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A Clinical Study on Juvenile Polyps
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Abstract
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Juvenile polyp is the most common cause of painless hematochezia in pediatric age after the first year of life.
This clinical study was done on 15 patients who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Keimyung University, School of Medicine with complaint of rectal bleeding(hematochezia) form January 1990 to October 1994 and was diagnosed as having
Juvenile
polyps through polypectomy.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN Among 15 cases, 9cases(60%) were between the ages of 3 and 5 years and male to female ratio was 2.7:1.
All cases had rectal bleeding and the duration of rectal bleeding was lees than 6 months in 8 cases.
Thirteen cases(86.7%) had single polyp and 2 cases (13.3%) had multiple polyps. Single polyp located at rectum in 8 cases sigmoid colon in 3 cases, and descending colon in 2 cases.
Histologic finding were typical features of retention polyp in all cases.
polyps were removed by proctosigmoidoscopic or colonoscopic polypectomy in 10 cases, direct excision in 3 cases, and operative polypectomy in one case. One case had spontaneous expulsion of the polyp. No complications were noted.
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