A recent study of 23 gastric inflammatory fibroid polyps showed an expression of platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFRA) and oncogenic PDGFRA mutations in a majority of analyzed tumors, and ...

Background A 73-year-old white man was referred to a cancer genetics clinic for evaluation of a ∼20-year history of mixed upper and lower gastrointestinal polyposis, including hyperplastic, ...

We obtained 24,584 pathology reports from colonoscopies performed at the University of Utah’s Gastroenterology Clinic. Two investigators annotated 350 reports to determine inter-rater agreement, ...

Polyps in the gallbladder may not cause any symptoms. Depending on the type of polyps, they can be benign, be a sign of inflammation, or potentially lead to cancer. Polyps are abnormal tissue growths.

Inflammatory fibroid polyp or Vanek's tumor of the gastrointestinal tract is a rare, benign neoplasm. The lesion may occur at any age but is commonest in the sixth and seventh decades and is more ...

"Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and be screened regularly for them," says Fola May, MD, a gastroenterologist ...

A male patient in his mid-thirties with a personal and family history of polyps underwent duodenal polypectomy. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a rare, autosomal dominant hamartomatous polyposis ...

The work of a pathology laboratory is immensely critical, as patients anxiously wait to hear word of a disease or clean bill of health. During that time, histotechnicians and pathologists are hard at ...