1979 Volume 76 Issue 3 Pages 716-727
Innumerable juvenile polyps of the stomach were recognized in a 18-year-old girl. She had no extragastric polyps on roentgenographic and endoscopic studies. Her elder brother received a subtotal gastrectomy because of gastric polyposis 14 years ago at age of 14 years. Their mother died of gastric cancer at age of 37 years.Only these three subjects among this kindred appeared to be of low normal intelligence and have brown hair. Polyps produced chronic and severe loss of blood and protein, these symptoms being disappeared upon the operation. No change in number and size of the polyps in their residual stomach was noticed, and roentgenographic studies of the small and large intestines in addition to sigmoidscopy disclosed no abnormal findings for 2 and 14 years after the operation, respectively. They are now in good health. A classification of this hereditary syndrome may be proposed to be a newly designated entity, juvenile polyposis of the stomach.
Nippon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi
Nippon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi Kou
