TY - JOUR
T1 - Clarity and Caution in the Natural History of Low-Grade Dysplasia in Ulcerative Colitis
AU - Kisiel, John B.
AU - Loftus, Edward V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by the American College of Gastroenterology.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of conservative endoscopic polypectomy for discrete, adenomatous-appearing colonic polyps in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Much less is known about the clinicopathologic factors of low-grade dysplastic lesions at risk for subsequent high-grade dysplasia or colorectal cancer. In this issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology , Choi et al. examine the outcome of patients with low-grade dysplasia participating in a surveillance cohort at St Mark's Hospital, one of the oldest and largest programs of its kind. Long-term follow-up of many, well-phenotyped, low-grade dysplasia cases sheds new light, and raises new questions, on our UC surveillance practice.
AB - A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of conservative endoscopic polypectomy for discrete, adenomatous-appearing colonic polyps in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Much less is known about the clinicopathologic factors of low-grade dysplastic lesions at risk for subsequent high-grade dysplasia or colorectal cancer. In this issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology , Choi et al. examine the outcome of patients with low-grade dysplasia participating in a surveillance cohort at St Mark's Hospital, one of the oldest and largest programs of its kind. Long-term follow-up of many, well-phenotyped, low-grade dysplasia cases sheds new light, and raises new questions, on our UC surveillance practice.
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U2 - 10.1038/ajg.2015.315
DO - 10.1038/ajg.2015.315
M3 - Article
C2 - 26465907
AN - SCOPUS:84955353541
SN - 0002-9270
VL - 110
SP - 1473
EP - 1474
JO - American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - American Journal of Gastroenterology
IS - 10
ER -