Hypertrophy of the appendices epiploicae and lipomatous polyposis of the colon.

Abstract

REPORT J.W. (male) was born one month post mature of an otherwise normal pregnancy weighing 2-7 kg. After breast feeding for three months he gained only 0.9 kg and after changing to a full-cream, dried-milk mixture he continued to gain weight very slowly. At 5 months he started to vomit and a hiatus hernia being suspected he was given thickened feeds and placed in a 'hiatus' chair. Although he still looked wasted his weight had reached 7-8 kg (above the 10th percentile). Subsequently, he again put on weight slowly, in spite of his mother's statement that he had an enormous appetite which could never be satisfied, in comparison with the five older children in the family.