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This patient presents the typical history, diarrhea in the young anemic patient, which is seen in diffuse polyposis. The disease is probably familial in this case, and had progressed to a carcinomatous degeneration of three of the polypoid masses. The problems arising in the treatment of such patients have been discussed.
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Read before the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, March 2, 1936.
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Ferguson, L.K. Diffuse polyposis of the colon. American Journal of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition 3, 593–594 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03002374
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03002374