Hyperplastic polyposis syndrome is a widely accepted, but poorly understood, risk factor for colorectal cancer. A recent report has laid the foundations for improving the management of patients with ...

Professor of Medicine; Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology; Endoscopy Training Director, Gastroenterology Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania This is an ...

Gastric hyperplastic polyps in organ transplant recipients have been recently described; however, the clinical significance of hyperplastic polyps in this setting remains unclear. The aim of this ...

Based on these and other studies, it is clear that HPP is a precancerous condition and warrants regular colonoscopic surveillance. Following a diagnosis of colorectal cancer, most patients are treated ...

A research group form the United States investigated how proximal colon polyps interpreted as hyperplastic polyps in 2001 would be interpreted by expert pathologists in 2007. They found that many ...

In terms of CRC mortality, however, the risk increased only in patients with sessile serrated polyps, tubulovillous adenomas, or villous adenomas but not in those with hyperplastic polyps or tubular ...

Objective To examine whether BMI is independently related to colorectal adenomas and hyperplastic polyps. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study among 1,420 asymptomatic women aged 40-79 years ...

A: Serrated adenomas are polyps that simultaneously demonstrate the serrated architecture typical of hyperplastic polyps and the epithelial dysplasia of conventional adenomas. They are a subset of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Use of the narrow-band imaging international colorectal endoscopic classification was associated ...