1542 No Ordinary Colon Polyp: Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis manifesting as a colon polyp: a case report

INTRODUCTION Schistosomiasis is a rare disease with a common intestinal involvement. However, colon polyps associated with Schistosoma in the absence of inflammation have rarely been reported, especially in young people; this is the first case with the following presentation. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a 20-year-old Ethiopian woman living in Lebanon who presented with nonspecif...

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Devices to improve colon polyp detection.

m h m a s b The ASGE Technology Committee provides reviews of existing, new, or emerging endoscopic technologies that have an impact on the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidencebased methodology is used, performing a MEDLINE literature search to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic and a MAUDE (U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health) database searc...

An Isolated Neurofibromal Polyp of the Colon

Solitary neurofibromal colonic polyps are a rare entity, particularly outside the setting of neurofibromatosis type 1. The clinical significance of such lesions has not yet been established. Though typically benign tumors, neurofibromas have been reported to undergo malignant transformation, with an increased risk of malignancy when associated with neurofibromatosis. In this case report, we pre...

Schistosomiasis Manifesting as a Rectum Polyp in Nigeria

Schistosomiasis is a peculiar worm disease found in different parts of the world (1). In this respect, migration plays an important part, e.g., an Ethiopian woman living in Lebanon (2) and those patients from Puerto Rico, “where the parasite is endemic,” but were treated in USA (3). Incidentally, the available single cases of intestinal infestation by schistosomes were recorded in terms of “pol...