Clinical features of upper gastrointestinal serrated lesions: An endoscopy database analysis of 98746 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To analyse the clinical features of patients with the serrated lesions in the upper gastrointestinal tract (UPGI) tract.

Methods

Patients who underwent routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) at the Digestive Endoscopy Centre of General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University between January 2011 and December 2015 were consecutively recruited. Patients with UPGI serrated lesions were consecutively identified. The patients' demographics and histopathology were recorded. The colorectal findings for patients who underwent colonoscopy simultaneously or within six months were also extracted from the colonoscopy database. In addition, we analysed differences in colorectal neoplasia detection between the study patients and randomly selected patients matched for age and gender who

SUBMITTER: Cao HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5143750 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature