A Broad-Based Submucosal Polyp

Abstract

Question: A 51-year-old woman with a medical history of acid reflux and laparoscopic band placement for obesity presented for further evaluation and treatment of a colon polyp. She had undergone screening colonoscopy a few weeks earlier, which revealed a 14-mm, smooth, broad-based, subepithelial polyp in the distal ascending colon. The polyp was removed en bloc using hot snare and completely retrieved (Figure A). Computed tomographic scan of the abdomen showed no abdominal masses or lymphadenopathy.