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Familial adenomatous polyposis coli. This patient had a pancolectomy at the age of 25. Innumerable polyps are present throughout the colon. Fortunately no invasive carcinomas were identified. The patient’s mother was less fortunate and died at the age of 43 from metastatic carcinoma of the colon.