Attenuated- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
Attenuated (Mild Type) Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
Colorectal cancers usually develop from polyps. If there is an adenomatous polyp, that means there is a risk of cancer. This is bad news. The good news is that removing polyps eliminates the risk of cancer.
Polyps are best diagnosed with colonoscopy and can be removed with the help of colonoscopy. If there are too many polyps that cannot be removed by colonoscopy, the large intestine including the polyps should be surgically removed.
Some genetic diseases can cause huge numbers of polyps in the large intestine. These genetic diseases pass from the parents to their children.
A genetic disease that causes more than 100 polyps in the large intestine is called familial polyposis. There is also a mild type of this disease. In the mild type, the number of polyps in the large intestine is between 20 and 100.
If measures are not taken in familial polyposis, the risk of large bowel cancer is 100%. Even in the mild form, the risk of colorectal cancer is almost 70%. In order to eliminate the risk of cancer in patients with polyposis, the large intestine should be surgically removed.
Following removal of the large intestine, a connection between the small intestine and the last part of the large intestine allows the patient to continue his life without a stoma.
In this video, images of the removed large intestine in a patient with mild-type familial polyposis are shared.
The connection between the small intestine and the last part of the large intestine ensured the patient to continue his life without an abdominal stoma.
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