Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction Some published studies suggest acromegalic patients have an increased risk of colonic tumours or pre-malignant dysplastic polyps. We assessed the prevalence of colonic polyps in Oxford acromegalic patients.Methods Patient database identified all 80 acromegalic patients who had had a colonoscopy.Control Patients Our data and published data on two autopsy and eight colonoscopic screening studies in asymptomatic non-acrom...