Sessile serrated polyps: cancer risk and appropriate surveillance.

Makkar, Rohit; Pai, Rish K; Burke, Carol A · Cleve Clin J Med · 2012

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Abstract

Sessile serrated polyps are a recently recognized type of neoplastic polyp that develops along a molecular pathway different from that of conventional adenomas. While the clinical significance of the serrated pathway to colorectal cancer is clear, further study is needed to understand a patient's lifetime colorectal cancer risk posed by serrated neoplasms and the optimal postpolypectomy surveillance interval.

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