BMJ Case Reports | 2019

Constipation with megacolon in a 36-year-old man: a rare presentation of MEN2B from Sri Lanka

 
 
 

Abstract


Diffuse intestinal ganglioneuromatosis is a rare condition associated with MEN2B. It is also seen in conditions like neurofibromatosis type 1 and Cowden syndrome. This is a report of a patient who underwent total colectomy with end ileostomy creation for a megacolon. He was diagnosed to have diffuse ganglioneuromatosis on histological examination of the resected segment of colon. The definitive management of diffuse ganglioneuromatosis is to resect and anastomose.

Volume 12
Pages None
DOI 10.1136/bcr-2018-227081
Language English
Journal BMJ Case Reports

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