PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Chetty, Runjan
AU  - Bateman, Adrian C
AU  - Torlakovic, Emina
AU  - Wang, Lai Mun
AU  - Gill, Pelvender
AU  - Al-Badri, Adnan
AU  - Arends, Mark
AU  - Biddlestone, Leigh
AU  - Burroughs, Susan
AU  - Carey, Frank
AU  - Cowlishaw, David
AU  - Crowther, Stephen
AU  - Da Costa, Philip
AU  - Dada, Mahomed A
AU  - d'Adhemar, Charles
AU  - Dasgupta, Kaushik
AU  - de Cates, Chandima
AU  - Deshpande, Vikram
AU  - Feakins, Roger M
AU  - Foria, Bineeta
AU  - Foria, Vipul
AU  - Fuller, Clare
AU  - Green, Bryan
AU  - Greenson, Joel K
AU  - Griffiths, Paul
AU  - Hafezi-Bakhtiari, Sara
AU  - Henry, James
AU  - Jaynes, Eleanor
AU  - Jeffers, Michael D
AU  - Kaye, Philip
AU  - Landers, Robert
AU  - Lauwers, Gregory Y
AU  - Loughrey, Maurice
AU  - Mapstone, Nicholas
AU  - Novelli, Marco
AU  - Odze, Robert
AU  - Poller, David
AU  - Rowsell, Corwyn
AU  - Sanders, Scott
AU  - Sarsfield, Patrick
AU  - Schofield, John B
AU  - Sheahan, Kieran
AU  - Shepherd, Neil
AU  - Sherif, Ali
AU  - Sington, James
AU  - Walsh, Shaun
AU  - Williams, Namor
AU  - Wong, Newton
TI  - A pathologist's survey on the reporting of sessile serrated adenomas/polyps
AID  - 10.1136/jclinpath-2013-202128
DP  - 2014 May 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 426--430
VI  - 67
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/67/5/426.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/67/5/426.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2014 May 01; 67
AB  - Aim The purpose of this survey was to ascertain reporting habits of pathologists towards sessile serrated adenomas/polyps (SSA/P). Methods A questionnaire designed to highlight diagnostic criteria, approach and clinical implications of SSA/P was circulated electronically to 45 pathologists in the UK and North America. Results Forty-three of 45 pathologists agreed to participate. The vast majority (88%) had a special interest in gastrointestinal (GI) pathology, had great exposure to GI polyps in general with 40% diagnosing SSA/P at least once a week if not more, abnormal architecture was thought by all participants to be histologically diagnostic, and 11% would make the diagnosis if a single diagnostic histological feature was present in one crypt only, while a further 19% would diagnose SSA/P in one crypt if more than one diagnostic feature was present. The vast majority agreed that deeper sections were useful and 88% did not feel proliferation markers were useful. More than one-third did not know whether, or did not feel that, their clinicians were aware of the implications of SSA/P. Conclusions 98% of pathologists surveyed are aware that SSA/P is a precursor lesion to colorectal cancer, the majority agree on diagnostic criteria, and a significant number feel that there needs to be greater communication and awareness among pathologists and gastroenterologists about SSA/P.