pseudo polyps

No, not a sign of getting better, just a sign of inflammation, which is common in ileal pouches.

Jan

I had my j-pouch for over eight years and almost every time I had my pouch scope, the doctor found polyps in my j-pouch and removed them. This last scope the doctor instead found pseudo polyps. Is this a significant change. Has the inflammation gotten worst or better.

I have had inflammatory polyps in the pouch. I have never heard the term "pseudo polyps" and don't really know what that means. The polyps I had were real, and were removed and biopsied. Pseudo generally means fake. Like for example, "pseudo-science" means a science that is not real and if your expert witness practices it, he gets hosed in court and disqualified as an expert. I see that term a lot in legal decisions. It means a faker and someone who is using a science that is not real.

The type of polyps associated with UC are pseudopolyps, as opposed to the adenomatous polyps associated with precancer (the type that are on a stalk with precancerous cells in them). These are called pseudopolyps because they are not true polyps, but inflammatory tissue caused by the raised edges of ulceration and overgrowth of granulation tissue. So, no, these are not "fake" polyps and it is an actual medical term.

John, I am not sure what sort of polyps your doctor found in the previous 8 years, and I would be concerned if they were of the adenomatous type, instead of the more typical inflammatory pseudopolyps. Is it possible that this was a different doctor (describing the same thing differently) or perhaps a different description on the pathology report? Because, yes, there are different types.

http://www.endoatlas.com/ib_uc_03.html

Jan

I have had the same doctor who scoped my j-pouch for eight years. It was a nurse who first told me I had pseudo polyps this time. I would guessed that my doctor never felt the need to call them pseudo polyps before because he had told me that these types of polyps found in the pouch would not likely become cancerous. So I never thought before that these polyps would ever become cancerous.