Is it time to consider prophylactic appendectomy in patients with serrated polyposis syndrome undergoing surveillance?

Gut. 2021 Feb;70(2):231-233. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321445. Epub 2020 Jul 21.

Owen McKay¹, Neal Shahidi^{1

2

3}, Sunil Gupta^{1

3}, W Arnout van Hattem¹, Toufic El-Khoury^{4

5}, Michael J Bourke^{6

3}

¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
² Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
⁵ The University of Notre Dame Australia, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia michael@citywestgastro.com.au.

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; colonoscopy; endoscopy; laparoscopic surgery; polyp.

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