Hyperplastic polyposis syndrome is a widely accepted, but poorly understood, risk factor for colorectal cancer. A recent report has laid the foundations for improving the management of patients with ...

A research group form the United States investigated how proximal colon polyps interpreted as hyperplastic polyps in 2001 would be interpreted by expert pathologists in 2007. They found that many ...

Institutional review board approval was obtained for this study. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples of serrated, adenomatous and hyperplastic colon lesions were identified in the archives of ...