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Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Introduction

Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: A familial polyposis of the gastrointestinal tract associated with ectodermal defects such as alopecia and onychodystrophy. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome is available below.

Symptoms of Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

Treatments for Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

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Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Complications

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Causes of Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

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Disease Topics Related To Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

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Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Undiagnosed Conditions

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Misdiagnosis and Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed....read more »

Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal...read more »

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,...read more »

Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning). In...read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed (it can, of course, also fail to be diagnosed with fatal effect...read more »

Rare form of hair loss often misdiagnosed: a rare form of extreme hair loss called "Atrichia with papular lesions" (APL) is often misdiagnosed as alopecia totalis. Researchers estimate that about 1 per 100 diagnoses of alopecia totalis are...read more »

Hair and scalp disorders misdiagnosed in African Americans: A higher than average percentage of misdiagnoses of hair or scalp disorders seem to occur in African Americans. Some of...read more »

Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder...read more »

Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the better known possibilities are peptic...read more »

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Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: Rare Types

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Prognosis for Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome

Prognosis for Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome: The prognosis is variable with the condition involving periods of spontaneous remission and relapses. Without treatment death can occur within 2 years of onset of symptoms but treatment may prolong the patients life. Roughly half of patients survive 5 years but longer-term survival is known.

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Definitions of Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome:

A nonfamilial polyposis syndrome that is characterized by the presence of diffuse gastrointestinal polyposis, DIARRHEA, and PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHY. It was first reported by Cronkhite and Canada in 1955. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet

 

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