Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

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Doctors Peutz and Jeghers and Their Patients: Footnotes

¹Peutz, J. L. A.: Very remarkable case of familial polyposis of mucous membrane of intestinal tract and nasopharynx accompanied by peculiar pigmentations of skin and mucous membrane. (Dutch). Nederl. Maandschr. Geneesk. 10: 134-146, 1921.

²van Wijk, ThW: Over het syndrome adenomatosa gastrointestinalis generalisata heredofamiliaris gecombineerd med huid-en slijmvliespigmentaties of ziekte Peutz (thesis) Leiden, Netherlands (1950)

³Westerman, A. M.; Entius, M. M.; de Baar, E.; Boor, P. P. C.; Koole, R.; van Velthuysen, M. L. F.; Offerhaus, G. J. A.; Lindhout, D.; de Rooij, F. W. M.; Wilson, J. H. P. : Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: 78-year follow-up of the original family. Lancet 353: 1211-1215, 1999.
PubMed ID : 10217080

⁴Giardiello, Francis M: Very High Risk of Cancer in Familial Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome. Gastroenterology 2000; 119:1447-1453.
PMID: 11113065

⁵Harold Joseph Jeghers: A Student for Life http://www.jeghers.com/aboutjeghers.asp

⁶Jeghers, H.: Pigmentation of the Skin. New Eng. J. Med. 231: 122-136, 1944.

⁷Jeghers, H.; McKusick, V. A.; Katz, K. H. : Generalized intestinal polyposis and melanin spots of the oral mucosa, lips and digits. New Eng. J. Med. 241: 993-1005 and 1031-1036, 1949.

⁸Foley, T. R.; McGarrity, T. J.; Abt, A. B. : Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: a clinicopathologic survey of the 'Harrisburg family' with a 49-year follow-up. Gastroenterology 95: 1535-1540, 1988.
PubMed ID : 3181678

⁹McGarrity TJ, Kulin HE, Zaino RJ. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Am J Gastroenterol 2000 Mar;95(3):596-604 Department of Medicine, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033-0850, USA.
PMID: 10710046

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