Pediatric Hamartomatous Polyps

  • Etiology: Hamartoma
  • Imaging: Most polyps are in small bowel and can cause small bowel-small bowel intussusception
  • DDX:
  • Complications: Small bowel-small bowel intussusception
  • Treatment: Surgical
  • Clinical: Syndromes with hamartomatous polyps include Basal cell nevus syndrome (associated with medulloblastoma), Cowden syndrome, Cronkhite-Canada syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome

Radiology Cases of Hamartomatous Polyps

Radiology Cases of Hamartomatous Polyps in Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

Small bowel follow through of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
AP (left) and lateral (right) spot images from an upper GI show several round filling defects in the proximal jejunum, the most notable being in the left-most aspect of the AP image.