Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report

Filiform polyposis (FP) of the colon is a distinct and uncommon entity that is occasionally encountered in patients with a history or evidence of inflammatory bowel disease. It is morphologically characterized by multiple, slender, worm-like projections consisting of submucosal cores lined with norm...

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Autores principales: Ali, Zafar, Iltaf, Salma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6903871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31886063
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6125
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description Filiform polyposis (FP) of the colon is a distinct and uncommon entity that is occasionally encountered in patients with a history or evidence of inflammatory bowel disease. It is morphologically characterized by multiple, slender, worm-like projections consisting of submucosal cores lined with normal mucosa. Here, we report a case of FP in a 43-year-old middle-aged man with a history of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis).
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spelling pubmed-69038712019-12-29 Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report Ali, Zafar Iltaf, Salma Cureus Pathology Filiform polyposis (FP) of the colon is a distinct and uncommon entity that is occasionally encountered in patients with a history or evidence of inflammatory bowel disease. It is morphologically characterized by multiple, slender, worm-like projections consisting of submucosal cores lined with normal mucosa. Here, we report a case of FP in a 43-year-old middle-aged man with a history of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis). Cureus 2019-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6903871/ /pubmed/31886063 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6125 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ali et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ali, Zafar
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Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report
title Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report
title_full Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report
title_short Giant Filiform Polyposis, A Rare Entity in a Patient of Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report
title_sort giant filiform polyposis, a rare entity in a patient of ulcerative colitis: a case report
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6903871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31886063
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6125
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