Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.
1991 Nov;11(2):241-249.
A Study of the Upper Gastrointestinal Polyp
Abstract
- The authers had diagnosed and treated 560 upper gastrointestinal polys by endoscopy on 479 patients who had visited to the gastraeaterologic department of Hae Wha hoapital, Medical College of Korea University from January, l980 to June, l991. The results were as follows; 1) The incidence of upper gastrointestinal polyps among 52,031 endoscopy cases was 0.92% with no sexual difference and increased after 5th. decade. 2) The moet prevalent location of upper gastrointestinal polypes was stomach(90.0%), among which antrum occupied 52.9%. 3) The main symptoms of patients with upper gastrointestinal polyp were epigastric pain(77.7%), indigestion(57.0%) and acid belching(26.5%). 4) Histopathologic examination of 504 polyps in stomach revealed that 411(81.5%) were hyperplastic polyp and 80(15.9%) were adenomatous polyp. In duodenum, 35(68.6%) polyps were hyperplastic and 7(l3.7%) were adenomatous. All of 5 esophageal polyps were hyperplastic.
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