Dysplastic polypoid lesions may be managed as sporadic adenomas provided they are completely resected and there is no dysplasia in flat mucosa surrounding the polyp or elsewhere in the colon (B). EUS is highly accurate for characterizing perianal Crohn's disease (C). A colonic stricture in the ...
colon polyps Methods Patients undergoing either screening or surveillance colonoscopy at two tertiary referral centers were prospectively enrolled from November 2007 to May 2009 in one of two clinical trials investigating the impact of novel imaging techniques on polyp detection and/or polyp histology ...
Pre-procedure: indications, consent, surveillance intervals; intra-procedure: preparation documentation, cecum identification and photo documentation, polyp detection rate, withdrawal times, biopsies in chronic diarrhea; post-procedure: complications rate and management, post procedure follow up. Results A ...
Our meta-analyses indicate that optical biopsy with NBI, exceeds the NPV threshold for adenomatous polyp histology, supporting a "diagnose-and-leave" strategy for diminutive predicted nonneoplastic polyps in the rectosigmoid colon. The pooled NPV of NBI for adenomatous polyp histology by using the ...