Patient's question:
A colleague of mine recently heard that their family member was diagnosed with juvenile polyps without a stalk. So, they are quite worried and wanted to ask what category this type of juvenile polyp without a stalk belongs to.Doctor's answer:
Young polyps are usually pedunculated. Only very small polyps lack a stalk, are thin, and lack muscle. The size of polyps is typically 1-3 cm. Some polyps smaller than 1 cm have a spherical or nodular head. They also have fission. They are mostly red and are usually accompanied by erosion or superficial ulcers. Histologically, polyps are mucosal. The lesions include dilatation of the lamina propria, mucin-filled cysts, and inflammatory cell adenomas, which contain well-differentiated mucin cells, markedly widened stroma, and abundant connective tissue containing numerous vessels and inflammatory cells. Occasionally, a small number of smooth muscle cells are found, which are caused by glandular dilatation and rupture. Plasmacyte-induced foreign body giant cell reaction.