TubuloVillous

This is the case of a 57 year-old lady, who had been suffering of rectal bleeding during six months, patient only was under ointments and suppositories treatment, she was referred to our endoscopic unit for evaluation, with the...

Endoscopic View of Enormous Tubulovillous tumor Another view of the wide stalk with the mass.

Enormous tubulovillous tumor of the sigmoid with wide pediculated stalk.

Adenomatous polyps are, by definition, neoplastic. Although benign, they are the direct precursors of adenocarcinomas and follow a predictable cancerous temporal course unless interrupted by treatment. They can be either pedunculated...

The fragment of the polyps have been falled out. Shown here after removal of the polyp.

Note the traction which the lesion is being removed.

A polypectomy is being performed, the polypectomy snare is appreciated.

In order to establish the magnitude of the size of the polyp and to plan its extraction, we used forceps of biopsy, moving forwarding and pushing the adenoma. The adenoma was excised using a snare wire and electrocautery. See...

Endoscopic Image of Sessile Tubulovillous Adenoma Another view using magnifying chromo-endoscopy.

Chromoendoscopy and magnifying endoscopy are useful for detection and recognition of small non polypoid lesions, for differential diagnosis between hyperplastic and adenomatous lesions and for determining not only the lateral...