Sessile serrated polyps and traditional serrated adenomas: These have a higher risk of being cancerous. Sessile are broad and flat polyps, while serrated polyps have a “saw-tooth” appearance.

In patients undergoing colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, deeper sedation using the anesthetic drug propofol may improve detection of "serrated" polyps—a type of precancerous lesion ...

However, it is now recognized that certain subtypes of serrated polyps have a risk of malignant transformation via a serrated neoplasia pathway. Serrated polyps are a heterogeneous group of ...

Serrated colorectal polyps are a genotypically and molecularly diverse group of lesions sharing the common phenotype of glandular serration of the crypt lumen. A small subset of serrated polyps ...