After the histological analysis polyps can generally be classified as being.
Carpet like polyp.
Others are flat flat polyp or carpet like sessile polyp.
Most polyps are benign.
Carpet lesions are flat lesions that spread along the surface of the colon but show little protrusion into the lumen.
It was so large and was flat like a carpet against the colon wall and draped a colon polyp this large and complicated is sometimes called a giant polyp or a difficult polyp.
Is it cureable.
A polyp s crypts can look tubular or villous under the microscope.
What are all your symptoms.
Biopsy being done.
With double contrast barium enema.
In tubular adenomas crypts are aligned normally and look like tiny test tubes jammed into the colon lining.
Polyps over 2cm in diameter present a higher risk of malignant degeneration 6.
Carpet like lesions were first described by rubesin et al.
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Some polyps are flat or carpet like spreading over the mucosal surface of the bowel.
Polyps are one of the most common conditions affecting the colon and rectum occurring in 15 20 percent of the adult population.
These small clumps of tissue that show up where they re not supposed to can be anything from a minor nuisance to a possible sign of cancer.
Webmd explains what you need to know about polyps.
The growth and cancer potential of a colon polyp is best appreciated under a microscope histology after its removal.
In terms of physical appearances most colon polyps are mushroom like having a stalk.
Have you talked to a doctor about cancer.
They are best detected en face as nodular mucosal surface patterns in double contrast barium enema radiographs.
They are usually missed or overlooked during colon cancer screening but flat lesions within the lining of the colon and rectum may be more likely to be cancerous than polyps new research shows.
I have a 25mm flat spreading carpet like polyp in the cecum.