DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF ADENOMAS CONTAINING MALIGNANCY TECHNICAL HANDLING

The subsequent management of patients with endoscopically removed mali gnant colorectal polyps depends on the pathologist's diagnosis. Accord ing to the correlation with clinical outcome previously published the histological criteria of potential adverse outcome are : the presence of tumour at or near the resection margins, the invasion of colonic su bmucosa, the lymphatic invasion and the high grade of malignancy. This article aims at providing guidelines for an adequate examination of t he polyp specimen and an unambiguous pathology reporting.