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Diagnosis concept

Polyp of colon

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
68496003
  • 761 patients
  • 6.7% of all patients
  • #63 of 778 across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 799 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What treats it

procedure concept Rectal polypectomy
644 procedures
procedure concept Screening for occult blood in feces
644 procedures
procedure concept Biopsy of colon
80 procedures

Counted over the prescriptions and procedures that recorded this diagnosis as their reason.

What else these patients have

diagnosis concept Recurrent rectal polyp
29% of these patients· 2% of all patients
diagnosis concept Overlapping malignant neoplasm of colon
10% of these patients· 1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Primary malignant neoplasm of colon
4% of these patients· <1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Malignant neoplasm of colon
8% of these patients· 1% of all patients
diagnosis concept Metastatic malignant neoplasm to prostate
1% of these patients· <1% of all patients

Of the 761 patients with this diagnosis, the share who also carry each one, against how common it is across all patients.

Age at first diagnosis

Polyp of colon: median 60 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 761 patients in all; the largest group is 50 to 59 with 302; Polyp of colon: median 60 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 100 200 300 50 to 59: 302 patients 60 to 69: 281 patients 70 to 79: 178 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 60 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 50 to 59 hold the most, 302 patients. A few first diagnoses are back-dated into infancy, and some conditions are handed an age by the decade, which draws a spike rather than a spread.

How long it stays on the record

How long it stays on the record Bar chart. How long it stays on the record. 7 categories; the largest is one to five years with 450 episodes. no end recorded: 335 episodes no end recorded 335 a week or less: 0 episodes a week or less 0 up to a month: 0 episodes up to a month 0 up to three months: 0 episodes up to three months 0 up to a year: 14 episodes up to a year 14 one to five years: 450 episodes one to five years 450 over five years: 0 episodes over five years 0
one to five years, more than any other. 799 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.