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Adenomatous polyposis coli in an elderly female Nigerian
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last 15 years. The present case is an elderly lady who had radiologic and colonoscopic evidence of multiple colonic polyps. She had a colonic resection and the histology was reported as multiple polyposis coli, follicular hyperplasia and submucosal fibrosis in the appendix,
and reactive hyperplasia in the mesenteric lymph nodes. There was no evidence of malignancy. This is the first case report of polyposis coli in a living elderly patient in Nigeria.
