%0 Journal Article
%T Osseous Metaplasia in Rectal Polyp: A Case Report with Review of Probable Pathogenesis
%A Azar Naimi
%A Mehrdad Hosseinpour
%J Archive of "Advanced Biomedical Research".
%D 2018
%R 10.4103/abr.abr_169_16
%X Heterotopic bone formation is a rare event in gastrointestinal lesions, especially in the pediatric population. Osseous metaplasia is exceedingly rare in colonic polyps. We present a case of rectal juvenile polyp with stromal osseous metaplasia in a 10-year-old male child. This histologic finding is very rare in children with colorectal polyps
%K Juvenile
%K osseous metaplasia
%K pediatric
%K rectal polyp
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5991274/