Posttraumatic colonic polyps with skin heterotopia. Report of a case.
A case of posttraumatic colonic polyps with skin heterotopia is reported. A 35-year-old man was the victim of a grenade explosion, which caused evisceration and partial amputation of the right colon. Twenty-five months after the accident, hypochromic anemia developed because of three polyps in the ascending colon. Histology documented the presence of sebaceous glands and keratinized epithelium, suggesting a graft of skin fragments on the colonic mucosa. Such a skin heterotopia has never been reported.
Brunet
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Digestive Surgery Department, Hospital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille, France.
Sielezneff
I
I
Thomas
P
P
Sastre
B
B
Farisse
J
J
Gros
N
N
Choux
R
R
D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000209:etiology*; D003106:Colon / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000209:etiology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery