LITTLE ROCK — It's so rare we're talking about something that happens to one in a million patients. And it happened to a North Little Rock woman. A{}couple of years ago, Alice Castleberry had a ...

Appendiceal carcinoma is an uncommon malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract with a prevalence ranging from 0.2 to 0.3% of appendectomy specimens (1, 2). Most appendiceal carcinomas arise from an ...

Sessile polyps are flat growths that develop in the colon or intestines. There are several types of sessile polyps. These include sessile serrated adenomas, villous adenomas, tubular adenomas, and ...

There may be one polyp or multiple polyps present. If your doctor discovers a polyp in your body, they’ll likely perform a biopsy. During a polyp biopsy, a sample of tissue is removed and analyzed ...

Defective DNA mismatch repair has been proposed as a second pathway for colonic carcinogenesis, particularly in tumors arising in the right colon. We investigated whether tumors arising in the ...

Sessile polyps develop on the mucosa, the tissue that lines the colon and other organs. They are flat and round and mostly harmless, but some can become cancerous. Polyps can be peduncled or sessile.

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a very rare type of cancer. It usually begins in your appendix as a small growth, called a polyp. This is different to polyps that cause bowel cancer and is called a ...