Clinical Study
The Coexistence of Colorectal Polyps in the Right Colon Increases the Malignant Risk of Laterally Spreading Tumors
Table 1
The baseline clinicopathological factors of the enrolled subjects.
| Characteristics | | Nonpolyps () | Polyps () | value |
| Gender | | | | 0.005 | Male | 114 | 38 | 76 | | Female | 92 | 49 | 43 | | Age (year) | | | | 0.239 | ≤44 | 9 | 7 | 2 | | ≤49 | 6 | 3 | 3 | | 50–75 | 169 | 70 | 99 | | ≥76 | 22 | 7 | 15 | | Tumor diameter (cm) | | | | 0.001 | <2 | 65 | 28 | 37 | | <3 | 65 | 26 | 39 | | <4 | 45 | 13 | 32 | | <5 | 16 | 14 | 2 | | ≥5 | 15 | 6 | 9 | | Location | | | | 0.439 | Ileocecal valve | 28 | 10 | 18 | | Ascending colon | 54 | 26 | 28 | | Hepatic flexure | 16 | 8 | 8 | | Right transverse colon | 12 | 4 | 8 | | Left transverse colon | 32 | 8 | 24 | | Splenic flexure | 2 | 1 | 1 | | Descending colon | 9 | 3 | 6 | | Sigmoid colon | 20 | 10 | 10 | | Rectum | 33 | 17 | 16 | | Morphological type | | | | 0.070 | G-H | 27 | 12 | 15 | | G-M | 92 | 47 | 45 | | NG-FE | 56 | 20 | 36 | | NG-PD | 31 | 8 | 23 | | Pathomorphism | | | | 0.013 | Hyperplastic | 14 | 5 | 9 | | Tubular | 148 | 58 | 90 | | Tubulovillous | 17 | 5 | 12 | | Serrated adenoma | 27 | 19 | 8 | | Histological type | | | | 0.845 | Hyperplastic | 14 | 5 | 9 | | Low grade | 157 | 67 | 90 | | High grade | 23 | 11 | 12 | | Carcinoma | 11 | 3 | 8 | | History of polyps | | | | <0.0001 | No | 132 | 75 | 57 | | Yes | 74 | 12 | 62 | |
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