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Updated: Dec 15 2021

Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

  • Snapshot
    • A 20-year-old woman presents with fatigue and pallor. On routine blood tests, she is found to have iron-deficiency anemia. On physical exam, she has multiple freckles around her lips and some inside her mucosa. Her primary care physician is concerned that the freckles may not actually be freckles but a lesion of something else. She is referred to a GI doctor, who schedules her for an endoscopy.
  • STUDIES
    • Predictive genetic testing offered to at-risk individuals in whom diagnosis is not already clinically apparent by age 8 years, provided a pathogenic STK11 mutation has been identified in an affected family member
  • Differential Diagnosis
    • Familial adenomatous polyposis
    • Juvenile polyposis
    • Cowden syndrome
  • Complications
    • Malignant transformation of macules are rare
  • Prognosis
    • High risk of malignant transformation of polyps
    • Good with routine screening
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