Generalized Intestinal Polyposis and Melanin Spots of the Oral Mucosa, Lips and Digits

Abstract

DiscussionTable 2 and 3 summarize data concerning our 10 proved cases of intestinal polyposis that manifested a distinctive variety of melanin spots of the oral mucosa, lips and digits.The ages of these 10 patients ranged from nine to thirty-nine at the time of death or first study by us. In each case, however, symptomatology referable to the intestinal polyposis had been present before, usually beginning in the teens. The patients of Peutz7,10 and the one of Touraine and Couder17,18 were in an age range similar to that in our series. Apparently, the type of intestinal polyposis present in this condition becomes . . .