Chasing Colonic ”Polyps“

Discouraging colonic polyps.

Endoscopic resection of colonic polyps – A review

Endoscopic polypectomy has become standard care for the treatment of colonic polyps. While about 90% of polyps are small in size and easy to resect, a small percentage of polyps are of large size (>2 cm) and broad base and endoscopic resection is a real challenge for the endoscopist. An appropriate technique for safe removal of these large colorectal polyps has been developed and includes submu...

Metastatic colonic and gastric polyps from breast cancer resembling hyperplastic polyps

Breast cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal tract is relatively rare and is generally found when patients complain of symptoms such as gastrointestinal obstruction. Herein, we report a case with metastatic colonic and gastric lesions from breast cancer, with the formation of mucosal polyps which resembled typical hyperplastic polyps.A 47-year-old woman underwent curable surgery for breast ...

Skeleton Based 3D Computer Aided Detection of Colonic Polyps

In this paper, we propose a new computer aided detection (CAD) technique to utilize both global and local shape information of the colon wall for detection of colonic polyps. Firstly, the whole colon wall is extracted by our mixture-based image segmentation method. This method uses partial volume percentages to represent the distribution of different materials in each voxel, so it provides the ...

Pathology of colonic polyps as it relates to surgical management.

A large variety of polypoid tumors of the colon exist. Regardless of the type, those under one cm may be treated conservatively. Of the adenomatous polyps, the large sessile adenoma, villous or otherwise, is best handled by segmental resection or by complete excision followed later by radical surgery if indicated by further pathologic examination. The presence of a pedicle is no guarantee of th...