Carcinoma of the Colon in Children: Case Report and Review of the Japanese Literature

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Journal J Gastroenterol

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 1994 Oct 1

PMID 8000515

Citations 8

Authors

K Yamamoto

T Tanaka

K Kuno

Y Amoh

Y Takahashi

H Murakami

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Abstract

A 15-year-old female presenting with anemia and positive for occult blood was diagnosed as having an adenomatous polyp with mild atypia in the cecum by colonoscopy. Microscopically, the majority of the surface of the tubulovillous adenoma was occupied by a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, indicating that the adenoma-carcinoma sequence is involved in the development of colon cancers, even in children. Forty-three cases of proven carcinoma of the colon in Japanese children aged under 15 years are also reviewed. The majority of the patients were aged over 10. Although an emergency laparotomy was undertaken in 42.5% of these patients, the signs and symptoms observed in these children did not markedly differ from those of adults. Colon cancer should not be excluded in children only on the basis of age, and barium enema and colonoscopy should therefore be applied to pediatric patients with unexplainable bleeding and abdominal pain, especially those over 10 years of age.

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