Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Polyp is defined as a tissue mass that projects from the wall of the bowel into the lumen of gastrointestinal tract[1]
Main presenting complaints were per rectal bleeding (100%), pallor (37.7%), prolapsed polyp (6.5%), abdominal pain (9.1%) and fever (2.6%)
Commonest presenting complaint was per rectal bleeding (100%)
Summary
Polyp is defined as a tissue mass that projects from the wall of the bowel into the lumen of gastrointestinal tract[1]. Colorectal polyps affect 1.1% of 4-12 years children[2]. Juvenile polyps are the most common (90%) gastrointestinal polyps and usually cause painless per rectal bleeding in children[2,3,4]. About 90% juvenile polyps are located in the recto-sigmoid region but others are located more proximally so that total colonoscopy is necessary[5,6,7]. Children with juvenile polyps have no risk of malignant transformation but children with familial adenomatous polyp and juvenile polyposis syndrome have the risk of development of adenocarcinoma[1,8]
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