Diagnosis and Treatment of Adenomatous Polyps of Colon

Polyps of the colon and rectum.A review of 12 years' experience and report of an unusual case

“…The adenomatous polyp reported here was the only one in our material in which carcinoma invaded the stalk. Among the 697 other adenomatous polyps, only 6 contained carcinoma and in these the stalk was uninvolved. There i s no recorded case in the literature of metastasis from a carcinoma clearly confined to the mucosa of an adenomatous polyp.…”

The Management of Adenomatous Polyps of the Rectum*

“…Crinell and Lane (1958) described lymph node metastases in 3 of 28 malignant polyps. Klein and Scarborough (1952) report 5 pedunculated polypoid carcinomata with metastases and it seems that this is the point at which agreement may not be reached by pathologists. The terms used here are those of the individual pathologists and there seems no doubt that the polypoid carcinoma is more likely to metastasize than the pedunculated malignant adenoma.…”