The Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome: A 39-Year Clinical and Radiographic Follow-up Report

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To the Editor: Recently, we have had the opportunity to review the history of one of the patients described by Jeghers et al.1 in their 1949 article in the Journal.The patient is now a 73-year-old woman who was first admitted to our institution in 1938 and has been followed here since that time. Her operations here have included initially a polypectomy for large duodenal and jejunal polyps causing obstruction and intussusception in 1938. Later in 1938 an ileosigmoidostomy and then a colectomy were performed. In 1944 jejunal polyps were again excised.In 1949 she returned to the hospital . . .

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