New phase of schistosomal polyposis

• Colonoscopy is considered a crucial investigating tool in different colorectal diseases as it provides tissue diagnosis by taking a biopsy and allows therapeutic intervention as polypectomy of adenomatous polyps.• In this study 400 patients suffering from chronic diarrhea and bleeding per rectum they were 266 male (66.5%) and 134 female (33.5%) there age rang from 3 – 69 years.• Inflammatory and ulcerative colonic lesions were detected in (35%) near the ratio of colorectal polyps (33.5%) in our study.• Colonoscopy is not sensitive test in detection of Inflammatory and ulcerative colonic lesions while it’s highly sensitive in detection of benign polyps.• Inflammatory polyps are the commonest colorectal polyps as they were detected in (35.3%) of all cases with polyps.• Schistosomal colonic polyposis were not the commonest colorectal polyps as they were detected in (25.4%) of all cases with polyps.• There is a relative decrease of the number of Schistosomal colonic polyposis that may be due to the effectiveness and the widespread use of antischistosomal therapy.• Chronic diarrhea and bleeding per rectum were the commonest clinical presentation in patients suffering from Schistosomal colonic polyposis.