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Benign Epithelial Tumours and Polyps

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Morson and Dawson (1990)1 define an intestinal polyp as a mucosal projection into the lumen of the bowel. This does not indicate the underlying nature of the lesion. The polyps can be single or multiple and if multiple they may be in small numbers or in hundreds or thousands — polyposis. Different types of polyp are produced by different pathological processes: neoplasia leads to adenoma, inflammation to an inflammatory polyp, malformation leads to juvenile and Peutz—Jeghers polyps and dysmaturation to the hyperplastic (metaplastic) polyp. The gross and microscopic features of these different types are beautifully illustrated in Morson’s colour atlas (1988)2.

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    Philip F. Schofield MD, FRCS (Consultant Surgeon and Honorary Visiting Professor), N. Y. Haboubi MB, ChB, DPath, MRCPath (Consultant Head of Department of Histopathology) & D. F. Martin MB, ChB, MRCP, FRCR (Consultant Radiologist)

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Schofield, P.F., Haboubi, N.Y., Martin, D.F. (1993). Benign Epithelial Tumours and Polyps. In: Highlights in Coloproctology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3456-5_11

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