Adenomatous polyposis coli in an elderly female nigerian.

Ghana Medical Journal
O B Alese, D O Irabor

Abstract

Colorectal cancer is reported to occur in lower rates in Africans and some of the reasons adduced include a rarity of polyposis coli syndromes. Only two cases of polyposis coli have been documented in Nigeria in the last 15 years. The present case is an elderly lady who had radiologic and colonoscopic evidence of multiple colonic polyps. She had a colonic resection and the histology was reported as multiple polyposis coli, follicular hyperplasia and submucosal fibrosis in the appendix, and reactive hyperplasia in the mesenteric lymph nodes. There was no evidence of malignancy. This is the first case report of polyposis coli in a living elderly patient in Nigeria.

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