Most colorectal cancers arise from dysplastic lesions, such as adenomatous polyps, and these lesions are difficult to be detected by the current endoscopic screening approaches. Here, we present the use of an intrinsic second-harmonic generation (SHG) signal as a novel means to differentiate between normal and dysplastic human colonic tissues. We find that the SHG signal can quantitatively iden...

AIM To review the evidence on the association between specific colon adenoma features and the risk of future colonic neoplasia [adenomas and colorectal cancer (CRC)]. METHODS We performed a literature search using the National Library of Medicine through PubMed from 1/1/2003 to 5/30/2015. Specific Medical Subject Headings terms (colon, colon polyps, adenomatous polyps, epidemiology, natural h...

BACKGROUND Cap polyposis is a rarely encountered disease characterized by multiple distinctive inflammatory colonic polyps located from the rectum to the distal colon. The etiology of this disease is still unknown, and no specific treatment has been established. AIM We report three cases of cap polyposis that were cured following eradication therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection. METHOD...

As a promising second reader of computed tomographic colonography (CTC) screening, the computer-aided detection (CAD) of colonic polyps has earned fast growing research interest. In this paper, we present a CAD scheme to automatically detect colonic polyps in CTC images. First, a thick colon wall representation, ie, a volumetric mucosa (VM) with several voxels wide in general, was segmented fro...

CONTEXT Lymphatic vessels are believed to be absent in the colon above the level of the mucularis mucosae. However, in our experience, lymphatic vessels are sometimes identifiable within the lamina propria in the setting of inflammation and neoplasia. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the presence of lymphatics within the colonic lamina propria in neoplastic and inflammatory conditions using the ...

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...

BACKGROUND It has been established that the removal of adenomatous colon polyps drastically reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC), but polypectomy is not without risk. The aim was to determine the correlation between the results of an optical biopsy system and the histopathology report of the physical biopsy specimens of the same polyps removed at colonoscopy. PATIENTS AND METHODS ...

S. Kinner, C. A. Kuehle, M. Nuefer, S. C. Goehde, J. Barkhausen, T. C. Lauenstein Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany Introduction: Colorectal cancer, which arises mostly from preexisting adenomatous polyps, continues to be the second most common cancer (1). The impact of existing colonic screening techniques strong...

Specimens of normal and neoplastic colonic mucosa from 52 patients were analysed by immunohistochemistry using a monospecific polyclonal antiserum against human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (PSTI). In normal colonic mucosa PSTI was found in the goblet cells in the basal parts of the crypts. In adenomas of tubular, villous, and tubulo-villous types PSTI was also found in the upper part...

AIMS Maspin, a 42-kDa serine proteinase inhibitor, is a tumor suppressor protein that stimulates apoptosis and inhibits motility, invasion and cancer metastasis. Mutant maspin leads to partial loss of tumor suppressor function, decreased susceptibility to apoptosis and to malignant progression. We recently found maspin expression (ME) in the cytoplasm of serrated colonic lesions, such as hyperp...