Diagnosis and treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis

Abstract

Familial adenomatous polyposis is a generally hereditary disease that leads to colon cancer if not treated early. For this reason, the purpose of this article is to describe the diagnosis, treatment and behavior to be followed with these patients through the presentation of a case. The methods used were a case study of a patient suffering from this disease, and a review of the scientific literature, where this subject is addressed, in order to take the points of coincidence and relate them. Results: The diagnosis in this patient was late, the procedure performed was a total colectomy with terminal ileostomy, the biopsy reported adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid. Conclusions: To apply the clinical epidemiological method for the early diagnosis of this disease due to its evolution towards colon cancer.