Table 5.

Kudo’s Pit Pattern for the Endoscopic Diagnosis of Colorectal Neoplasia [238]

Pit pattern classification	Type I	Type II	Type IIIS	Type IIIL	Type IV	Type Vi	Type VN
Description	Round (normal) pits	Asteroid pits	Tubular or round pits, smaller than the normal pits	Tubular or round pits, larger than normal pits	Branched or gyrus-like pits	Irregular arrangement and sizes of type IIIS, IIIL, IV pit patterns	Amorphous or non-structural pit patterns
Most likely histology	Normal	Hyperplastic polyp	Adenoma	Adenoma	Adenoma	Intramucosal cancer	Deep submucosal cancer
		Sessile serrated lesion	Intramucosal carcinoma		Intramucosal carcinoma	Superficial submucosal cancer