ABSTRACT
RESUMEN Se presenta a una paciente de 27 años de edad, con varios ingresos en el Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Docente José Ramón López Tabrane, de Matanzas. Por presentar clínica compatible con pólipos de colon, corroborados por videocolonoscopia, diagnosticados en marzo de 2015. Posteriormente reingresa a los 14 meses por convulsiones, al inicio generalizado y luego limitado al hemicuerpo derecho, cefalea universal y vómitos. Falleció a los 23 días de su ingreso, en los antecedentes patológicos familiares destaca madre fallecida a los 52 años por cáncer de colon y hermana a los 21 años por neoplasia maligna colorectal (AU).
ABSTRACT The case of a female patient, aged 27 years is presented. She was in-patient in the Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital José Ramón López Tabrane, of Matanzas for several times presenting clinical characteristics compatible polyps in the colon, corroborated by video colonoscopy, and diagnosed in March 2015. She was readmitted 14 months later because of convulsions, generalized firstly and lately limited to the right side of the body, universal headache and vomits. She died 23 days after the admittance. The family history shows that her mother died when she was 52, due to colon cancer and her sister died at twenty one due to colorectal malignant neoplasia (AU).