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[Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Two case reports]
Wassim Kallel1, Mohamed Akram Mseddi, Mohamed Foued Frikha
1Service de Chirurgie Générale Hôpital Habib Bourguiba 3029 Sfax.
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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is an inherited condition causing hamartoma polyps in the digestive tract and dark spots on the skin. This review details PJS epidemiology, pathology, and treatment, highlighting its serious complications.
Area of Science:
- Genetics and Hereditary Diseases
- Gastroenterology
- Dermatology
Context:
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder.
- Characterized by hamartomatous polyposis in the gastrointestinal tract and mucocutaneous lentiginosis.
- PJS accounts for 3-10% of familial polyposis cases.
Purpose:
- To review the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, and pathological findings of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
- To discuss the prognosis and therapeutic strategies for PJS.
- To present two case observations of patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
Summary:
- PJS presents with characteristic gastrointestinal hamartomas and mucocutaneous lentigines.
- Digestive polyps are central to PJS, dictating clinical manifestations and prognosis.
- Complications include intestinal intussusception and hemorrhage.
Impact:
- Enhances understanding of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome for clinicians and researchers.
- Provides a comprehensive overview for managing patients with PJS.
- Contributes to the literature on rare genetic gastrointestinal polyposis syndromes.
Abstract:
The Peutz jeghers syndrome is a familial affection with dominant autosomic transmission characterized by a hamartoma digestive polyposis and a cutaneous mucous lentiginosis with periorifice predominance. This affection represented 3 into 10% for the familial polyps. The digestive polyps constitute the must important part of the pentz jeghers syndrome because they determined to only the clinic manifestation and the disease prognostic with there complications: intestinal invaginations, haemorrhage. In this work, we report two observations of patients presented a Peurtz Jeghers syndrome, and we determine, after literature review the epidemiologic, pathogenic, clinic, anatomy pathologic, prognosis and therapeutics of this effection.