Colonic stasis and chronic constipation: Demystifying proposed risk factors for colon polyp formation in a spinal cord injury veteran population.

Background And Aims: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) suffer significant morbidity from neurogenic bowel. Chronic constipation has long-been a proposed risk factor for polyp development. We performed a retrospective cohort study in veterans with SCI to assess polyp presence in the setting of colonic stasis.

Embedded Fishhook in the Gastric Cardia: Novel Removal Utilizing Electrocautery Needle-Knife Dissection.

Foreign body ingestions often consist of benign objects that will readily pass through the gastrointestinal tract (GI) without necessitating further intervention. While several retrieval devices and techniques are available to the endoscopist, we present a novel method of implementing a needle-knife sphincterotome in the removal of an ingested fishhook embedded in the gastric cardia of a 36-year-old man with underlying schizophrenia. The hook was successfully dissected from the gastric submucosa after several unsuccessful attempts at manual extraction with forceps.