Post written by Ahmad Madkour, MD, and Amr Elfouly, MD, from the Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, and Hassan Atalla, MD, from the Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Esophageal fibrovascular polyps are rare benign tumors. Huge polyps usually necessitate an aggressive type of surgery. Endoscopic removal of …
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Peroral endoscopic tumor resection of recurrent hypopharyngeal fibrovascular polyp
Post written by Yohei Nishikawa, MD, PhD, from Digestive Diseases Center, Showa Medical University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. We present a case of a 56-year-old woman with a recurrent fibrovascular polyp (FVP) in the hypopharynx. She previously underwent an incomplete resection, and the residual tumor continued to grow, leading to progressive dysphagia. We performed …
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Endoscopic resection of a giant fibrovascular esophageal polyp by use of a scissor-type knife
Post written by Kenji Yamazaki, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Prefectural General Medical Center, Gifu, Japan. We described a case of a giant fibrovascular esophageal polyp endoscopically resected by use of a scissor-type knife. Fibrovascular esophageal polyps are rare, and most of these are enormous and arise from the cricopharynx or upper …
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