What is cauliflower shaped gastric polyp

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Gastric polyp is a common disease in gastroenterology. It is mainly caused by the hyperplasia of superficial tissue of gastric mucosa due to various reasons. Patients with gastric polyps are usually found accidentally by endoscopy or X-ray examination. Patients with gastric polyps will have abdominal distension, abdominal pain, stomach discomfort, and a few may have nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, which seriously affect the life of patients, so timely treatment is needed.

What is cauliflower shaped gastric polyp

First, there are no clinical symptoms in the early stage or without complications. Symptoms often manifested as epigastric pain, abdominal distension, discomfort, a small number of nausea, vomiting. Patients with erosions or ulcers may have upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Most of them are positive in fecal occult blood test or black stool. Hematemesis is rare. The pedicled polyps located in the pyloric part can be detached into the pyloric canal or duodenum, resulting in pyloric obstruction. Polyps growing near the cardia may have dysphagia.

Second: polyp is a benign disease, cancer is certainly a malignant disease, cancer can be cauliflower like, whether it is cancer to pass pathological examination, can not simply rely on the appearance, but also need to do pathology.

Third: gastric polyps are generally benign, asymptomatic patients do not need treatment. Hyperplastic polyps are non neoplastic polyps, because malignant lesions usually do not occur, and the effect is better after symptomatic treatment in internal medicine. The canceration rate of adenomatous polyps can reach 30% - 58.3%.

matters needing attention

Warm tips: get cauliflower shaped gastric polyps had better go to the hospital to check, is the need to take laser removal, after removal to anti infection treatment, more water, do not eat spicy food.