Surveillance in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: a case report

Abstract

Study performed surveillance endoscopy in a 23-year-old male patient with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) who underwent right hemicolectomy with ileo-colic anastamosis for ileo-colic intussusception three years back. On evaluation, he found to have multiple upper gastrointestinal and ileal polyps. Subsequently he underwent polypectomies in three sessions by combined standard snare polypectomy and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) method without any complication. We present a case report that emphasizes the importance of surveillance and the role of prophylactic polypectomy in patients with PJS.

A Case of Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome Presenting as a Rectal Mass

“…8 Patient with PJS are at increased chance of developing malignancy 9 hence the require routine screening and surveillance and various protocols have been suggested to monitor stomach, small and large bowel, breasts, testicles, ovaries, uterus, and pancreas by various procedures as frequently as once a year. 10,11,12…”