Seattle--Smoking may be just as important a risk factor as family history in predicting who will develop colon polyps. An analysis of the medical records of more than 1,700 consecutive patients who had a screening colonoscopy found that the incidence of polyps was higher among current smokers ...
starts as a polyp in the rectum or colon. A polyp can grow into the rectum or colon wall over time, allowing cancer cells to infect blood and lymph vessels. Those infected vessels can carry disease to lymph nodes and the rest of the body. Larger polyps are more likely to cause cancer....
Background: Although standard white light colonoscopy is the preferred method for the detection and removal of colon polyps, multiple studies have shown that it can miss not only polyps but also cancer. Depending on the polyp size, polyp miss rates of 5-20% have been reported in tandem ...
S520Negative Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test Does Not Detect Smaller Polyps: Colonoscopy Remains the Best Test for Colon Cancer Preventiondoi:10.14309/01.ajg.0001031448.57312.91Haider GhazanfarBronxCare Health System, Bronx, NY;Sameer Kandhi...
Although the "submucosal cushion" technique or injection-assisted polypectomy (IAP) is often used to resect colon polyps, little is known on the influence of this technique on histologic interpretation. We aimed to evaluate whether the use of a submucosal cushion improves the histologic and margin ...
S3016Does Metabolic Syndrome Influence the Development and Progression of Lipid Laden Colon Polyps?doi:10.14309/01.ajg.0001041432.38940.7eAlejandro J. Nieto DominguezJohn H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL;Kajali MishraCook County Health and Hospital Systems, Chicago, IL....
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of proton pump inhibhitor (PPI) usage in altering the number of patients found to have colon polyps.doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2003.08093.xV. KhuranaT. SinghRakesh SinghalC. FortAmerican Journal of Gastroenterology...
Utilization of proton pump inhibitors does not lead to increased incidence of colon polypsSolitary fibrous tumorHypoglycemiaDoege-Potter syndromeThe American Journal of Gastroenterology is published by Springer Nature on behalf of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). Ranked the #1 clinical ...
Real-time optical biopsy of colon polyps with narrow band imaging in community practice does not yet meet key thresholds for clinical decisions. Gastro- enterology 2013;144:81-91.Ladabaum U, Fioritto A, Mitani A, et al. Real-time optical biopsy of co- lon polyps with narrow band imaging ...
Does alcohol consumption protect against colon polyps?Publication » Does alcohol consumption protect against colon polyps?.doi:10.1016/S0016-5085(03)80842-9Rajeev JayadevanPramod JosephTanaya NayakAjit KokkatCs PitchumoniElsevier Inc.Gastroenterology...