Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome in Children: a Report of Six Cases
Gut and Liver, Vol. 7, No. 6, November 2013, pp. 752-755 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome in Children: A Report of Six Cases Nafiye Urgancı*, Derya Kalyoncu†, and Kamile Gulcin Eken‡ *Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Departments of †Pediatrics, and ‡Pathology, Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS) is a rare, benign dis- diseases such as inflammatory bowel diseases, amebiasis, ma- order in children that usually presents with rectal bleeding, lignancy, and other causes of rectal bleeding such as a juvenile constipation, mucous discharge, prolonged straining, tenes- polyp.2,5,9,19,20 SRUS should be suspected in patients with rectal mus, lower abdominal pain, and localized pain in the perine- discharge of blood and mucus and previous disorders of evacu- al area. The underlying etiology is not well understood, but it ation. We report herein six pediatric cases with SRUS for re- is secondary to ischemic changes and trauma in the rectum minding this rare syndrome. associated with paradoxical contraction of the pelvic floor and the external anal sphincter muscles; rectal prolapse has CASE REPORTS also been implicated in the pathogenesis. This syndrome is 1. Case 1 diagnosed based on clinical symptoms and endoscopic and histological findings, but SRUS often goes unrecognized or A 10-year-old boy was referred to our pediatric gastroenterol- is easily confused with other diseases such as inflammatory ogy unit with rectal bleeding. He had had episodes of diarrhea, bowel disease, amoebiasis, malignancy, and other causes sometimes bloody, during 10 years. Diarrhea had worsened of rectal bleeding such as a juvenile polyps.
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