Skin and mucous pigmentation

Skin and mucous pigmentation is a symptom of multiple gastrointestinal polyp syndrome. Generalized Gastrointestial Polyposis Syndrome, which occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, has multiple polyps of the digestive tract (youth type of hamartoma or inflammatory polyps), abnormal ectoderm and accompanied by severe intermittent Symptoms of gastrointestinal and nervous system symptoms such as sexual diarrhea, abdominal pain, and numbness in the limbs. The eigen was reported by Crokhite and Canada in 1955. It is also called Cronkhite-Canada syndrome. The age of onset is mostly 30 to 86 years old, with more men than women, about 1.5: 1.

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