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(en) TO THE EDITORS, We report a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the pouch in a patient with a longstanding history of untreated pouchitis. A 39-year-old patient underwent total coloproctectomy with ileal J-shaped reservoir and ileo-anal anastomosis for uncontrolled ulcerative colitis. The histological specimen was free of dysplasia. The patient was lost to follow-up for 26 years until he was diagnosed with pouchitis and treated successively with antibiotics and biologics. Endoscopies repeatedly identified superficial pouch erosions, and biopsies were systematically consistent with chronic inflammation. [...]
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Delorme, A., Lemaire, J., & Rahier, J.-F. (2022). Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Pouch. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 28(7), e99-e100. https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izac006 (Original work published 2022)