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Pseudopolyps are a common accompaniment of chronic ulcerative colitis. They are not true adenomas, but are intact, edematous, mucosal bridges between areas of ulceration. A case exhibiting an unusual variant of pseudopolyposis in association with a healed mucosa is reported.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 14 to 16, 1965.
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Smith, M. Chronic ulcerative colitis with pseudopolyposis. Dis Colon Rectum 9, 173–175 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616973
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616973