Polyps of the stomach belong to the category of so-called precancerous diseases. From this article, you will learn about the modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of this ailment.
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The appearance of the polyps is extremely diverse even within the same organ - stomach. Polyps are isolated on a leg and on a wide base located one by one or nests. Polyps can cover the entire gastric mucous membrane. Polyps form most often spherical or oval, less often papillary, mushrooms. Sometimes numerous soft small polyps are combined into a grinding mass. View of cauliflower have nagged outgrowths. They are most often turned into cancer. The surface of the polyps can be velvety, smooth, buggy or grainy. And the painting depends on the structure of the polyp, the number of connective tissue, vessels, the degree of nutrition. Therefore, the polyps are gray, red, crimson-red, orange, pinkish-cherry. With the predominance of fibrous tissue, the polyps are dense, and with fervor - soft.
Polyps appear not immediately. First, the doctor makes a diagnosis «Polypose gastritis», After time, it goes into the stomach polyps, the next stage is the stomach cancer. Do not calm down if you are told that the polyp on the leg, it is enough to sore - and all. Polyp body rich vessels. The floor of the polyp is the continuation of the adjacent mucosa and the submembrance layer.
The appearance of fibroendoscopes allows you to currently remove polyps in the process of gastroscopic research. For reliable clarification of the nature of the tumor, the fabric is immediately sent to the laboratory.
Diagnostics of stomach polyps
The beginning of the disease is most often invisible, gradual. Moving and stupid pain in the opposite region are the main and most frequent symptom of the stomach polyps. Sometimes pains are given to the field of blades, the waist and mostly associated with the meal. Often, patients note the feeling of gravity in the opposite region, quick saturation when receiving food, lowering or no appetite, exhaust, heartburn, nausea, less often vomiting, unpleasant taste in mouth, saliva, unstable stool, flatulence, general weakness. Keep in mind that all these symptoms are characteristic both for cancer and gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcers.
Sometimes the beginning of the disease patients are associated with intestinal work disorder or with anemia, and this is the only manifestation of the disease. Only later, other symptoms can join. And on the absence of appetite, a person begins to complain not immediately. Openings and nausea are noted about each third, nausea - half of the patients. Can sose with benign and malignant polyps. But nausea may be associated with a decrease in acidity, poor digestibility of food and disrupted by evacuation.
General symptoms, often observed in the stomach polyps: general weakness, body weight loss, fatigue, poor sleep, depressive condition, headaches, dizziness, in some cases an increase in body temperature. Increased body temperature is usually associated with the exacerbation of the inflammatory process.
If the polyp falls into the duodenum, strong cutting and grapple-shaped pain appear. At the same time, a person, and a doctor, might think that the reason for this is the aggravation of peptic ulcer or sprinkling ulcers, acute appendicitis, acute cholecystitis and other acute diseases of the abdominal organs. Put accurate diagnosis will also help endoscopic examination of the patient with polypa biopsy. But the most accurate information in the diagnosis of the disease of the stomach in general and in the diagnosis of polyps in particular gives a combination of X-ray study with gastroscopy.
With an endoscopic study on a stretched air smooth mucous membrane of the stomach, as a rule, polips even small sizes are clearly visible.
Treatment of stomach polyps
The study is carried out in the morning on an empty stomach. For anesthesia, anesthesia of the oz and pharynx is used. The patient is placed on the operating table on the left side with the legs bent in the knee joints, face to endoscopy. Sometimes use the position on the back, thanks to which the inspection of all the bends of the stomach is better.
Fibrondoscope makes it possible in the process of study to study the condition of the mucous membrane of the esophagus, cardia, stomach and duodenum. Then, the base of the polyp is picked up a metal loop, tighten it smoothly, without jerks. As the hinge is delayed, the vessels of the vessels of the polyp feet and its death, so that there is no bleeding after cutting off the polyp. For malignant polyps, the treatment of treatment is the resection of the stomach or gastrectomy.
