[Recto-colic polyps in the child. Analysis of 183 cases].
Between January 1974 and April 1988, 1,533 colonoscopy were carried out in children less than 15 years old. Two hundred and seventy-four polyps were demonstrated in 183 children (106 boys, 77 girls, mean age: 6 years). The main symptom in most cases was rectal bleeding during defecation. A family history of polyps or digestive cancer was found in 6% of all patients. Two hundred and thirty-nine polyps were removed by endoscopic resection, 232 of them by the diathermic snare and 7 by William's hot biopsy technique. Histological examination of 129 polyps revealed a juvenile polyp in 125 cases, an hyperplastic polyp in 2 cases, a lymphoid polyp in 1 case and an adenoma in 1 case. No complications were observed except for one case each of hemorrhage and perforation following endoscopic polypectomy.
Mougenot
J F
JF
Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris.
Baldassarre
M E
ME
Mashako
L M
LM
Hanteclair
G C
GC
Dupont
C
C
Leluyer
B
B
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003113:Colonoscopy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007417:Intestinal Polyps / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*
Polypes recto-coliques de l'enfant. Analyse de 183 cas.