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Swedish physician specializing in the treatment of Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Views - my own.
Sep 3, 2021 14 tweets 7 min read
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Important update for #IBD. The @AmerGastroAssn has issued updated clinical practice recommendations for neoplasia surveillance in #IBD. These are not the same as "guidelines" although the difference may be mostly semantics.
Several important highlights follow
Read on! 2/ Use the newest terminology to describe a suspicious lesions as per #SCENIC: polypoid (>2.5 mm tall), non-polypoid (<2.5 mm) or invisible (avoid "flat") if detected on random biopsies, see ⬇️
Describe size, morphology, borders (v important!) and location (within/out colitis) Lesion descriptors