Graded Compression Sonography of the Colon in the Diagnosis of Polyps in Pediatric Patients
Matteo Baldisserotto1,
José Vicente Noronha Spolidoro2 and
Maria da Graça Soares Bahú3
1 Departamento de Ultra-sonografia, Hospital São Lucas-Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga, 6690, Porto
Alegre, RS, Brazil, CEP 90610-000.
2 Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital São Lucas-pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil,
CEP 90610-000.
3 Departamento de Gastrenterologia Pediátrica, Hospital da Criança
Conceição, Av. Francisco Trein, 596, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil,
CEP 91350-200.

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Fig. 2B. 11-year-old boy with anemia. Color Doppler sonogram obtained
in transverse plane shows few small cysts (arrowhead) in lesion
(arrows).
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Fig. 1A. 9-year-old boy with abdominal pain for several months.
Gray-scale sonogram reveals polyp with small cysts (arrowhead) in
sigmoid flexure (large arrows), with hyperechoic peripheral submucosa
(small arrows).
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Fig. 1D. 9-year-old boy with abdominal pain for several months.
Picture of glass slide shows dilated secretory tubules in resected polyp. (H
and E, x2)
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Fig. 1C. 9-year-old boy with abdominal pain for several months. Color
Doppler sonogram shows polyps (arrows) with pedicle extending to
intestinal wall (arrowheads).
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Fig. 2C. 11-year-old boy with anemia. Color Doppler sonogram reveals
hypervascular pedicle (arrows) extending to intestinal wall.
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Fig. 3B. 7-year-old girl with abdominal pain for 1 year. Gray-scale
sonogram shows polyp (large arrows) with pedicle (small
arrows) extending to intestinal wall.
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Fig. 3A. 7-year-old girl with abdominal pain for 1 year. Gray-scale
sonogram reveals hypoechoic polyp (arrows) with small cysts
(arrowhead) in transverse colon.
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Fig. 3C. 7-year-old girl with abdominal pain for 1 year. Gray-scale
sonogram obtained in transverse plane shows proximal colocolic intussusception
(arrows), which reduced spontaneously during scanning.
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Fig. 3D. 7-year-old girl with abdominal pain for 1 year. Gray-scale
sonogram obtained in longitudinal plane shows colocolic intussusception
(arrows).
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Fig. 2A. 11-year-old boy with anemia. Color Doppler sonogram of polyp
(arrows) obtained in longitudinal plane in transverse colon shows
hypovascularization of lesion.
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Fig. 1B. 9-year-old boy with abdominal pain for several months. Color
Doppler sonogram reveals highly vascularized polyp (arrows).
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