Very often in diagnostic studies in patients, especially those who are in adulthood, on the walls of the digestive organs are found tumor-like outgrowths, polyps.
Most often they occur in the lower, antral, part of the stomach, closer to the place of its connection with the duodenum, and also in the intestine, in any of its departments. These defects of the mucous membranes of the digestive organs are very dangerous for humans for several reasons.
These tumors are a benign tumor until a certain time, in which there are no abnormal cells that can germinate into other tissues, leaving the stomach. But such a state, which does not pose a particular danger to a person, happens only before the outbreak begins.
Due to the fact that this pathology became possible to diagnose most well only in recent decades due to the appearance of good equipment necessary for the most qualitative research, many patients still have the question: "What are the dangerous polyps if they are benignneoplasm "?
These tumor-like outgrowths on the walls of the digestive organs are varied in both their shape and location. They grow alone, group into large foci, and can even cover almost the entire mucosa of the intestine or stomach.
Despite the fact that polyps are considered benign, some of their forms are dangerous in that they can still malign. Also they often give all sorts of complications.
Which polyps are the most dangerous?
All pathological neoplasms of the digestive tract are divided into two main groups. Which of them and what do they pose the greatest threat to the human body? If you consider these defects in the mucosa in more detail, you can draw the following conclusions:
- The most common group of polyps of the digestive system is the hyperplastic polyps. These outgrowths are represented by an overgrown epithelial tissue. Although malignancy is rare in this type of malignancy, the risk of their development for the patient does not decrease. It consists in the fact that precisely these defects give the greatest number of complications that pose a significant threat to the patient;
- A group of adenomatous neoplasms is usually formed from glandular cells of the intestine or stomach. They have a great propensity to degenerate into cancer. The greatest danger for the patient is large outgrowths, whose diameter reached 2 cm.
The sequence of the transition of a benign tumor-like outgrowth to a malignant one is as follows:
- Adenomatous neoplasm( adenoma);
- Adenomatous polyp with epithelial dysplasia;
- Developing cancer in the neoplasm;
- Danger of germination of metastases to other organs.
The biggest threat is represented by polyps that have a wide base. This is due to the fact that they have a property that allows penetrating into the deepest layers of the mucosa of the digestive organs. This greatly complicates both the diagnosis of this pathology and its treatment, thereby increasing the risk of its degeneration into malignant formations.
Are complications of polyps dangerous in the intestine or stomach?
Pathological outgrowths of the digestive organs for some time after their formation do not bring any inconvenience to the patient, since they do not have a definite pronounced symptomatology. But when polyps are found, one must be prepared for the occurrence of various complications, which, for the most part, are very dangerous and present a serious problem.
- Rebirth into a malignant tumor;
- Food intake, which is in the process of digestion, is broken from the stomach into the intestine. This is caused by an increase in the size of the neoplasm and, correspondingly, the ability to close the narrow lumens of these organs. With this development of pathology, there is a danger of intestinal or gastric obstruction.
- A big threat to the patient is the fall of the polyp in the stomach into the duodenum, where it is infringed. This situation happens in the case when the pathological outgrowth has a leg and is localized on the border of these digestive organs;
- Ulceration of polyps carries the risk of internal bleeding.
All these possible complications that can cause this new formation, and give an answer to the question, what is his threat to the patient. All this suggests that the great danger that the polyp is diagnosed in the digestive tract should make the patient think about the urgent treatment of this pathology.