In the case when polyps are found in the GI organs, it can be said that the patient begins a precancerous state, because the probability of the degeneration of these benign tumors to malignant tumors.
This is especially common in large adenomatous outgrowths. In addition, the larger the outgrowth, the sooner it will block the narrow lumen in the digestive organ and become an obstacle to the progress of digested food in it.
Dependence of symptoms on the size of the polyp
While this tumor is still small enough, it does not show any special signs of its presence, therefore it is rather difficult to determine its presence. But as the growth pathology begins to show more vivid symptoms associated with its presence on the walls of the digestive organs. The larger the size of polyps, the more signs indicate their presence. Among them can be identified such as:
- When the surface of these lesions is ulcerated, there is internal bleeding( gastric or intestinal), this is determined by the presence of bloody discharge in fecal or vomit masses;
- When a large polyp is located in the antrum of the stomach, the patient exhibits a symptom such as frequent vomiting with a bitter taste of the masses being expelled;
- If the tumor begins to fall into the 12-colon, a person "in the pit of the stomach" has cramping pains that spread throughout the stomach.
Accompany large polyps localized on the mucosa of the digestive tract and such signs as flatulence, the appearance of an unpleasant metallic taste in the mouth, heartburn, constant nausea and eructation. In addition, with malignancy of the tumor, what happens with large neoplasms, a person loses his appetite and begins to lose weight. He has a general weakness.
Which polyp is considered large?
All these abnormal defects of the digestive tract are different in size. They can be as small as possible, not larger than the cherry bones, and too large, up to 30 cm in diameter. As these growths begin to deliver to the patient from whom they are diagnosed, more and more problems, so they should be removed at the very beginning of development.
Patients are always interested in which polyp is considered large in size. There are no unambiguous norms in this matter. For each, they are individual, since the structure of the digestive system in all people is different and the excessive magnitude of the defect can be determined by the degree of its protrusion into the free cavity.
But in any case, when the polyp begins to expand and becomes large in size, if it is not removed in time, it causes the patient multiple problems. First, it is the propensity of an increasing tumor defect to malignancy and transformation into a cancerous growth, and secondly, the stretching of its pedicle, which becomes a prerequisite for overlapping the narrow lumens of the digestive tract.
This occurs as follows: a polyp that is considered to be large in size is subject to constant irritation by the food masses that are in the process of digestion, and this causes it to move. As a result, the leg with which it is attached to the wall of the digestive organ, stretches and it either hangs down, closes the food passage in the stomach or intestine, or rises.
In case of localization of a large polyp in the esophagus, lifting it up can lead to the fact that it will start to enter the mouth, causing the patient to suffocation and coughing attacks, and also making it difficult to swallow food.