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 Surgeons may ask about it 'cause a guy (who probably didn't do a lot of pathology) put it in a widely read surgery textbook.
 In short:<ref>[http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Haggitt_classification http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Haggitt_classification]</ref><ref name=pmid4007423>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Haggitt | first1 = RC. | last2 = Glotzbach | first2 = RE. | last3 = Soffer | first3 = EE. | last4 = Wruble | first4 = LD. | title = Prognostic factors in colorectal carcinomas arising in adenomas: implications for lesions removed by endoscopic polypectomy. | journal = Gastroenterology | volume = 89 | issue = 2 | pages = 328-36 | month = Aug | year = 1985 | doi =  | PMID = 4007423 }}</ref>
-*0 - intramucosal carcinoma
+*0 - intramucosal carcinoma.
-*1 - in submucosa but in head of polyp
+*1 - in submucosa but in head of polyp.
-*2 - neck of polyp
+*2 - neck of polyp.
-*3 - stalk of polyp
+*3 - stalk of polyp.
-*4 - submucosa of the bowel wall but above muscularis propria
+*4 - submucosa of the bowel wall but above muscularis propria.
-It is a little scheme that is mostly useless. In the real world surgical pathology most polyps do not have a discernable neck or stalk.
+It is a little scheme that is mostly useless. In the real world surgical pathology most polyps do not have a discernible neck or stalk.
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