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Özgür Kurtkulagı1, Ferhan Demirer Aydemir2
1Department of General Surgery, Çanakkale Mehmet Akif Ersoy State Hospital, Çanakkale, Türkiye. (Dr. Kurtkulagı).
Abstract:
We present a rare morphological variant of a colonic polyp observed during a routine screening colonoscopy. A 62-year-old male with known chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) was found to have a bridge-shaped polyp in the sigmoid colon. The polyp was successfully resected via snare polypectomy following submucosal adrenaline injection. Histopathological analysis revealed the lesion to be a hyperplastic polyp. To our knowledge, bridge- or horseshoe-shaped hyperplastic polyps have not been previously reported in the literature.
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