ABSTRACT
En pacientes con enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal (EII) de larga duración, pueden aparecer pólipos postinflamatorios o seudopólipos, los cuales se presentan en los sitios en donde previamente hubo inflamación severa. Se describe el caso de un paciente con colitis ulcerativa de 5 años de evolución, en quien se encontró una poliposis postinflamatoria generalizada durante la colonoscopia de control. Se hace una revisión del significado de esta alteración, su clasificación y de su tratamiento.
Post-inflammatory polyps or pseudopolyps may occur in patients who have long-term inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). They occur at sites where severe inflammation had previously occurred. We describe the case of a patient who had suffered from ulcerative colitis for five years when generalized post-inflammatory polyposis was discovered during a follow-upl colonoscopy. We review the meaning of this condition as well as its classification and treatment
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Colitis, Ulcerative , Polyps , ReviewABSTRACT
Filiform polyposis(FP), an unusual form of inflammatory polyposis, has been recently designated to a lesion characterized by multiple, long slender, finger-like projections of mucosa and submucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. We present 5 cases of FP, of which two were associated with irritable bowel syndrome, two with advanced colon carcinoma, and one with active ileotyphlitis(Behcet's disease). The polyps ranged from 1.0 cm to 3 cm; they were either isolated or aggregated, and their numbers were up to 100. The common microscopic feature was filiform polyps which consisted of central submucosal core covered by intact or minimally inflamed intestinal mucosa, comparable with that in reparative processes and formation of inflammatory(redundant) pseudopolyps. We conclude that awareness of FP in non-inflammatory bowel disease may promote the endoscopists to search its underlying disease and prevent unnecessary surgical procedure. Behcets enterocolitis in the ileocecal junction seems an additional preceding disorder of a localized form of FP.