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CRONKHITE‐CANADA SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH SIGMOID CANCER

1980; Volume: 30; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1440-1827.1980.tb00976.x

0001-6632

Akitaka Nonomura, Goroku Ohta, Takayoshi Ibata, Kimihide SHINOZAKI, Tomokatsu NISHINO,

Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas

The case of a 78-year-old man with the characteristic clinical and pathologico-anatomic pictures of the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome associated with sigmoid cancer is reported. He died ten months after the onset of his disease. Autopsy findings of the patient are described in detail. The other fifty three cases of the syndrome are reviewed, and clinical and pathologico-anatomic features of the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome are discussed.