This includes having polyps known as sessile serrated adenomas that are precancerous and account for 25% of colon cancer cases. Sessile polyps do not typically cause symptoms and are usually found ...

In general terms, colorectal polyps that are 10 mm (1 cm) or bigger in diameter are considered to have a higher risk of ...

VIENNA — The effectiveness of computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) in differentiating neoplastic from non-neoplastic polyps depends on ... the descending colon to the cecum) and the distal colon ...

The ability to detect serrated polyps by fecal blood testing, computed tomographic (CT) colonography and colonoscopy is limited. Serrated polyps are less likely than adenomas to bleed, so fecal ...

This concern about malignancy has now been extended to sessile serrated polyps which, the authors warn, are "less understood than adenomas and are more risky to remove." Yet current consensus ...

What you may think are allergies or a cold, could be the sign of nasal polyps. Nasal polyps are non-cancerous growths that line the nasal passages and sinuses. They are soft, painless, and hang ...

Nasal polyps are small noncancerous growths in the nose or sinuses. They may cause pain or pressure in the face, runny or stuffy nose, and other symptoms or complications that may negatively ...

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...