Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
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Case Report

Giant Localized Pseudopolyp of the Colon as the First Manifestation of Inflamatory Bowel Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review

¹Department of Clinical Endoscopy, Institute of Rural Health, Lublin, Poland

²Department of Physiology, University of Life Sciences, Lublin, Poland

*Corresponding Author:

Rafal Filip
Department of Clinical Endoscopy
Institute of Rural Health, Jaczewskiego 2
20-090 Lublin, Poland
Tel: +48 509130097
E-mail: r.s.filip@wp.pl

Received date: August 03, 2014; Accepted date: September 22, 2014; Published date: September 26, 2014

Citation: Filip R, Radzki RP, Bienko M, Pardak P (2014) Giant Localized Pseudopolyp of the Colon as the First Manifestation of Inflamatory Bowel Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review. J Gastroint Dig Syst 4:219. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000219

Copyright: © 2014 Filip R, et al. 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.

Pseudo polyps are very common in the course of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Patients with long history of inflammatory bowel disease are known to be at higher risk of malignancy. Giant colonic psedopolyps are sometimes mistaken for carcinoma which may potentially lead to unnecessary surgery. We describe a case of a 62- year-old man with a large localized inflammatory lesion of the sigmoid colon. The clinical presentation of this rare tumor-like lesion, which can be considered as a localized giant pseudo polyp of the colon, mimicked malignancy or polypoid cavernous hemangioma. What is also unique in this case, is that no definite past history of inflammatory bowel disease could be demonstrated.

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