Word: pseudopolyp
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...then our way of dealing with that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The President's doctors stood fast, explaining that they had decided against a scan of the entire bowel after the discovery of the first polyp because it was in fact merely a "pseudopolyp," more an inflammation than an actual growth. In following the course they did, insisted Dr. Edward Cattau, chief of gastroenterology at the naval hospital, the doctors were adhering to the screening guidelines established by the American Cancer Society...
...headed the team that operated on the President, admitted that he now wished a colonoscopy had been performed in 1984, after the first intestinal growth was discovered. But he defended the decision not to carry out the procedure at that time. What was discovered, he said, was a pseudopolyp that was clearly not malignant nor likely to become so. He insisted that no other signs suggested the presence of cancer...
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