{"id":14262,"date":"2023-06-15T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=14262"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T11:02:09","slug":"submucosal-injection-unnecessary-for-3-to-9-mm-polyps-per-randomized-controlled-trial-results","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/submucosal-injection-unnecessary-for-3-to-9-mm-polyps-per-randomized-controlled-trial-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Submucosal Injection Unnecessary for 3- to 9-mm Polyps, per Randomized Controlled Trial Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cold snare resection is the treatment of choice for 4- to 9-mm polyps, yet some practitioners perform submucosal injection for polyps in this size range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a randomized controlled trial performed in 6 Chinese centers, 150 patients with 234 polyps, ranging in size from 3 to 9 mm, were randomly assigned to receive submucosal injection followed by cold snare polypectomy and compared with 150 patients with 216 polyps randomized to simple cold snare polypectomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After each resection, the site was washed and then inspected with narrow-band imaging. If any polyp tissue was suspected, a targeted biopsy was performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incomplete resection rate was 1.7% in the injection group versus 1.4% without injection. Procedure time was longer with injection (108 vs 48 seconds;&nbsp;<em>P<\/em>&lt;.001). There were no differences between arms in immediate or delayed bleeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold snare resection is the treatment of choice for 4- to 9-mm polyps, yet some practitioners perform submucosal injection for polyps in this size range. In a randomized controlled trial performed in 6 Chinese centers, 150 patients with 234 polyps, ranging in size from 3 to 9 mm, were randomly assigned to receive submucosal injection &#8230; <a title=\"Submucosal Injection Unnecessary for 3- to 9-mm Polyps, per Randomized Controlled Trial Results\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/submucosal-injection-unnecessary-for-3-to-9-mm-polyps-per-randomized-controlled-trial-results\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Submucosal Injection Unnecessary for 3- to 9-mm Polyps, per Randomized Controlled Trial Results\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1769],"tags":[2058,2904,2072,2954],"class_list":["post-14262","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-narrow-band","tag-polyps-2","tag-submucosal-injection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/14262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}