Serrated Polyposis: An Enigmatic Model of Colorectal Cancer Predisposition

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Serrated polyps or hyperplastic polyps? [1].

Epithelial polyps with serrated architecture arising in the large intestine were until very recently collectively known as

hyperplastic polyps. A modern classification has now been proposed which uses the descriptive umbrella term serrated

polyps for all epithelial polyps with serrated architecture and the term hyperplastic polyps for the subset of small

common lesions without evidence of abnormal proliferation. A detailed description of the WHO classification

of serrated polyps is given in Section 3 of this paper.