title: Retrospective Analysis of Growth Speed of 54 Lesions of Colitis-associated Colorectal Neoplasia.
abstract: This study used a multicenter questionnaire survey to evaluate the morphology and progression of the initial lesion in cases of colitis-associated colorectal neoplasia (CRN).
  
  
  
  Endoscopic images of lesions that had been definitively diagnosed as CRN by pathological examination were retrospectively reviewed.
  
  
  
  This resulted in the identification of 54 initial lesions in 49 patients. The 54 initial lesions fell into the following categories: 22 endoscopically visible localized lesions consisting of 18 elevated lesions and 4 depressed lesions, as well as 32 lesions that were not endoscopically visible as localized and consisted of 20 active-phase mucosal lesions and 12 remission-phase mucosal lesions. Nineteen of the lesions eventually became advanced cancers, while 35 lesions eventually became early-stage cancers. The final lesions were 40 elevated lesions, 5 flat or depressed lesions and 9 stenotic lesions. The form of growth of the advanced cancers was progressive stenosis or increased elevation. For approximately 69% of the early-stage cancers, the growth form was increasing elevation or development of elevation. For 73.6% of the advanced cancers, the initial lesion underwent rapid growth and became advanced cancer within 3 years; they accounted for 25.9% of the total cancers. Approximately 40% of the initial lesions of CRN were endoscopically visible as localized lesions, while approximately 60% were judged to be inflammatory mucosal lesions.
  
  
  
  It will be necessary to proactively take biopsy inflammatory mucosal lesions in order to discover tumors early and periodic surveillance should be performed with the knowledge that tumors may grow very quickly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazutomo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan matsui@fukuoka-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsui
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hisabe
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Fumihito
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hirai
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morokuma
authors.affiliation: Center for Preventive Medicine, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iwao
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Imamura hospital, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidehisa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohi
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andoh
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Motohiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Esaki
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Kunihiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aoyagi
authors.affiliation: Yokohama Municipal Citizen's Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sugita
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Endoscopic Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakase
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan.
authors.forename: Mikihiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujiya
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Daijiro
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Higashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital, Chikushino, Japan.
authors.forename: Kitaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Futami
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000473:pathology*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011230:Precancerous Conditions / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D047368:Tumor Burden; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Ulcerative colitis; colitis-associated colorectal neoplasia (CRN); initial lesion