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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peutz-Jeghers_syndrome_polyp.jpg Peutz-Jeghers syndrome polyp (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peutz-Jeghers_syndrome_polyp.jpg Peutz-Jeghers syndrome polyp (WC)].
*[http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v16/n4/fig_tab/3880773f3.html Peutz-Jeghers polyp (nature.com)].
*[http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v16/n4/fig_tab/3880773f3.html Peutz-Jeghers polyp (nature.com)].
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case190.html PJS - several images (upmc.edu).]


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 01:07, 9 January 2012

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, abbreviated PJS, is a constellation of findings inherited with an autosomal dominant pattern due to a defect in the STK11 gene.[1]

Clinical

Features:[2]

Increased risk of various neoplasms - primarily:

Reported associations:

  • Associated with (ovarian) SCTAT (sex cord tumour with annular tubules).[5]

Microscopic

Features:[6][7]

  • Frond-like polyp with all three components of mucosa:
    1. Muscosal epithelium (melanotic mucosa, goblet cells).
    2. Lamina propria.
    3. M. mucosae.

Image:

See also

References

  1. Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 602216
  2. Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 175200
  3. Beggs AD, Latchford AR, Vasen HF, et al. (July 2010). "Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: a systematic review and recommendations for management". Gut 59 (7): 975–86. doi:10.1136/gut.2009.198499. PMID 20581245.
  4. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/175200. Accessed on: 22 December 2010.
  5. Purohit RC, Alam SZ (March 1980). "Sex cord tumour of the ovary with annular tubules (SCTAT)". Histopathology 4 (2): 147–54. PMID 7358344.
  6. Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 859. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.
  7. Bronner, MP. (Apr 2003). "Gastrointestinal inherited polyposis syndromes.". Mod Pathol 16 (4): 359-65. doi:10.1097/01.MP.0000062992.54036.E4. PMID 12692201. http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v16/n4/full/3880773a.html.