title: Evaluation of results of lower gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsi.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The endoscopic examination is widely used and also the the gold standard in lower gastrointestinal system (LGIS) in the diagnosis and treatment of mucosal pathology. Colon and rectum often hosts premalignant lesions and relatively easily accessible organs. Therefore, colorectal cancer (CRC) is a early detectable disease. And to prevent the development of CRC and to capture at early stage the screening tests such as screening endoscopy are used. In our study was aimed to evaluate the biopsy results of the lower gastrointestinal endoscopy.
  
  
  METHODS
  The lower gastrointestinal endoscopy (LGE) biopsy results of 135 cases and demographic characteristics of the patients were evaluated retrospectively who admitted to Department of Pathology between January 2013-November 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  135 patients enrolled in the study, 89 (65.92%) of male and 46 (34.07%) were female. The age of patients were between 15 and 82 with a mean age of 53.00 ± 14.6. 85 of 135 cases (62.96%) were colitis, 3 (2.22%) were hyperplastic polyps, 22 (16.30%) were tubular adenoma, 15 (11.11%) of them tubulovillous adenoma, 1 (0%, 74) of submucosal lipoma, 9 (6.67%) patients were diagnosed with cancer. All of the cancer cases were in adenocarcinoma histology, one of developing from villous adenoma, one of them from tübülovillous adenoma. Cases of adenomas were included to only cancer groups because there is no duplication of data.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Colonoscopy in the detection of both benign and malignant LGIS pathologies is the gold standard method. The upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy(LGE) must be remembered as a reliable method in the population, with a low complication rate and high diagnosis rate and when there is clinical necessity gastrointestinal endoscopy should not be avoided as planned.
authors: Department of Patology, İskenderun State Hospital Hatay, Turkey.
authors: Serdar
authors: S
authors: Yanık
authors: Department of Family Medicine, İskenderun State Hospital Hatay.
authors: Ayşe Neslin
authors: AN
authors: Akkoca
authors: Department of Internal Medicine, Yozgat Bozok University, Medicine Faculty Yozgat, Turkey.
authors: Zeynep Tuba
authors: ZT
authors: Özdemir
authors: Department of Internal Medicine, İskenderun State Hospital Hatay.
authors: Didem
authors: D
authors: Sözütek
authors: Department of General Surgery, Diyarbakır Research Hospital Diyarbakır.
authors: Edip Erdal
authors: EE
authors: Yılmaz
authors: Department of Gastroenterology, Dr. Ersin Arslan State Hospital Gaziantep.
authors: Süleyman
authors: S
authors: Sayar
keywords: Lower gastrointestinal system (LGIS); colorectal cancer (CRC); lower gastrointestinal endoscopy (LGE)