Neurofibroma
Smooth polypoid lesion resembling an inverted diverticulum found in a 58 year-old woman undergoing screening colonoscopy. Histologically the lesion proved to be a neurofibroma.
Bland diminutive polyp found in the sigmoid colon in a 57 year old woman undergoing colonoscopy for a change in bowel habit with
diarrhea. Histology revealed focal spindle cell proliferation in the lamina propria; immunohistocheical stains were consistent with
neurofibroma.
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