Hyperplastic Polyps: "More Than Meets The Eye"? Report of Sixteen cases.

Authors

Khawaja Azimuddin MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
John J. Stasik MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Indru Khubchandani MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Lester Rosen MD, FACS, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Robert D. Riether MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Michael Scarlato, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow

Publication/Presentation Date

9-1-2000

Abstract

The vast majority of hyperplastic polyps are small, left-sided, and inconsequential in nature. However, hyperplastic polyps that are large, right-sided, mixed, and found in association with a family history of carcinoma may represent an "atypical" group, and their clinical significance is uncertain. We believe that these atypical lesions should not be lumped together with the common variety of diminutive hyperplastic polyps. Rather, when such hyperplastic polyps are encountered, they should be excised and the patient should be placed on regular colonoscopic surveillance.

Volume

43

Issue

9

First Page

1309

Last Page

1313

ISSN

0012-3706

Comments

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02237443

Published In/Presented At

Azimuddin, K., Stasik, J. J., Khubchandani, I. T., Rosen, L., Riether, R. D., & Scarlatto, M. (2000). Hyperplastic polyps: "more than meets the eye"? Report of sixteen cases. Diseases Of The Colon And Rectum, 43(9), 1309-1313.

Disciplines

Medical Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Pathology | Surgery

PubMedID

11005503

Department(s)

Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Surgery

Document Type

Article