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What is What? Clinical Vignettes of Multiple Polyps

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Colorectal polypoid lesions are the most common pathology found during endoscopy. The clinical challenge nowadays is to differentiate during endoscopy between neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions, in order to choose the correct treatment modality. The aim of this chapter is to describe the clinical features, appearances, and frequencies of the various colorectal (polypoid) lesions and how to differentiate between them. New, technically advanced methods such as narrow-band imaging (NBI), magnifying chromoendoscopy (CE), and autofluorescence imaging (AFI) are described, along with their current and possible future roles in colonoscopy to diagnose polyps “histologically” before the pathologist has even seen a specimen.

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    Johann Pfeifer MD (Associate Professor of Surgery)

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    Gian Gaetano Delaini

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    Tomáš Skřička

  3. Department of Surgery and Gastroenterology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Gianluca Colucci

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Pfeifer, J. (2009). What is What? Clinical Vignettes of Multiple Polyps. In: Delaini, G.G., Skřička, T., Colucci, G. (eds) Intestinal Polyps and Polyposis. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1124-3_10

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