Research Article
Portal Hypertensive Polyposis in Advanced Liver Cirrhosis: The Unknown Entity?
| Gastroscopy | n = 407 | Esophageal varices | 373 (91.6%) | Grade I | 145 (38.9%) | Grade II | 137 (36.7%) | Grade III | 91 (24.4%) | Barrett‘s esophagus | 28 (6,9%) | Gastric varices | 40 (9.8%) | Portal hypertensive gastropathy | 373 (91.6%) | Gastric polyps | 38 (9.5%) | Histopathology of endoscopically obtained biopsies (n = 36) | | Hyperplastic | 29 (80.6%) | Foveolar hyperplasia | 3 (8.3%) | Tubular adenoma | 1 (2.8%) | Inflammatory | 3 (8.3%) | Helicobacter pylori | 23 (10.5%) (n = 219) | Duodenal polyps | 32 (7.9%) | Histopathology of endoscopically obtained biopsies (n = 22) | | Hyperplastic | 10 (45.5%) | Tubular adenoma | 2 (9.1%) | Inflammatory | 1 (4.5%) | Brunner glands | 4 (18.2%) | Lipoma | 2 (9.1%) | Endocrine tumor | 2 (9.1%) | LGIEN | 1 (4.5%) | Colonoscopy | n = 363 | Colon polyps | 135 (37.2%) | Histopathology of endoscopically obtained biopsies (n = 113) | | Hyperplastic | 34 (30.1%) | Hyperplastic and LGIEN | 16 (14.2%) | LGIEN | 55 (48.7%) | Sessile adenoma | 2 (1.8%) | Adenocarcinoma | 4 (3.5%) | Leiomyoma | 2 (1.8%) |
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tested in 219 patients. LGIEN = low grade intraepithelial neoplasia. |