Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery

Rare Polypoid Disease of the Gastro Intestinal Tract– Cronkhite–Canada Syndrome

V. B. Pathirana *

Department of General Surgery, National Hospital Colombo, Sri Lanka.

R. V. Paranamanna

Department of General Surgery, National Hospital Colombo, Sri Lanka.

R. M. G. Rathnayaka

Department of General Surgery, National Hospital Colombo, Sri Lanka.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

Cronkhite–Canada syndrome is a rare condition with multiple hamartomatous polyps in the gastrointestinal tract; need to be differentiated, from other conditions with similar symptoms and polypoid lesions. 52 year old male patient presented with anorexia and weight loss, discovered to be having multiple polypoid lesions in the stomach, duodenum, colon and terminal ileum with histological features of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome. He later developed diarrhoea and characteristic ectodermal signs of CCS. He was treated with prednisolone, sulfasalazine. Nevertheless, the disease was steroid resistant and developed recurrent pneumonia and Candidemia and finally succumbed due to the malnutrition and the infections. 

Keywords: Gastrointestinal polyps, cronkite canada syndrome, skin pigmentation and alopecia, diarrhoea and weight loss

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