Yousif Abdallah Adam*, Esraa M Attaalmanan and Waleed Azhary
A gastrointestinal polyp is an abnormal protrusion from the mucosal surface of the gastrointestinal lumen and can be considered to indicate protuberant growth, which can be benign or malignant. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the clinical features, possible risk factors, endoscopic features, and histopathological patterns of upper gastrointestinal polyps among adult Sudanese patients. Patients and methods: This was a retrospective, descriptive, cross-sectional hospital-based study. The study was conducted at the Soba University Hospital Department of Endoscopy from March 2017 to March 2020. The present study was also conducted on patients with gastrointestinal polyps found upon OGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy). Results: We revised 2003 endoscopy reports, and 105 patients had upper GI polyps. The mean age was 51 years ± 15 years (the more affected age group was 34 years-48 years, 31.4%). Male sex was the predominant sex. The main clinical presentation was epigastric pain (40%), followed by portal hypertension (21%) (22) and anaemia and dyspepsia (13.3%) (n14). The main site of polyps was the stomach (64%), while the duodenum and oesophagus were 21% (n22) and 13% (n14), respectively. Most polyps were small and sessile. The predominant histopathological type was inflammatory (33.3%), followed by adenomatous (10.5%) (n11) and hyperplastic (7.6%) (n7). Conclusion: From this research, we found that the frequency of upper GI polyps was 5.6%, while that of gastric polyps was 3.4%. The main presentation was epigastric pain. A small size >0.5 cm and a sessile shape were the dominant endoscopic features; however, inflammatory polyps were the most common type of polyp.
Published Date: 2024-04-22; Received Date: 2024-03-21
