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Table 5 Patients with advanced adenoma/sessile serrated lesion - previous and current colonoscopy findings

Patient	Gender	Age at current colonoscopy	Family history	Symptoms	Year of previous colonoscopy	Year of current colonoscopy	Quality of bowel preparation of previous colonoscopy	Quality of bowel preparation of current colonoscopy	Result of previous colonoscopy	Most advanced histology on current colonoscopy	Size of largest polyp (mm)
1	Male	74	Nil	Altered bowel pattern, abdominal pain	2012	2015	Unknown	Fair	Melanosis coli	Serrated adenoma	13
2	Female	70	Nil	Abdominal pain	2015	2017	Good	Good	Angioectasia	Tubular adenoma with LGD	10
3	Male	74	Nil	Nil	2016	2019	Fair	Excellent	Tubular adenomas × 4	Tubulovillous adenoma with LGD	20
4	Male	75	Nil	Nil	2016	2017	Poor	Fair	Tubular adenoma × 1	Tubulovillous adenoma with LGD	15
5	Male	71	Nil	Nil	2015	2018	Poor	Good	Normal	Tubular adenoma with LGD	10
6	Male	70	Nil	Nil	2012	2015	Unknown	Good	Unknown	Tubular adenoma with LGD	10
7	Male	58	Nil	Nil	2015	2018	Unknown	Fair	Unknown	Tubular adenoma with LGD	10

LGD: Low-grade dysplasia.