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Cold Snare Polypectomy Without Submucosal Injection May Be the Treatment of Choice for Sessile Serrated Lesions 10 mm or Larger

Cold Snare Polypectomy Without Submucosal Injection May Be the Treatment of Choice for Sessile Serrated Lesions 10 mm or Larger

In a multicenter, multinational study, retrospectively obtained data for 379 patients showed 615 sessile serrated lesions ≥10 mm in size resected by cold snare polypectomy

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Predicting Recurrence After Cold Endoscopic Mucosal Resection

Predicting Recurrence After Cold Endoscopic Mucosal Resection

Cold EMR is increasingly popular because of its low risk of complications. However, there do seem to be more recurrences after cold EMR.  In a

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Cold EMR for Large Nonpedunculated Colon Polyps Dominates Hot EMR in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Cold EMR for Large Nonpedunculated Colon Polyps Dominates Hot EMR in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Cold EMR is becoming increasingly popular for large nonpedunculated colorectal lesions, particularly sessile lesions and adenomas without major 1s or pseudodepressed components. These researchers performed

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Expanding Cold EMR to Large Laterally Spreading Lesions

Expanding Cold EMR to Large Laterally Spreading Lesions

Douglas K. Rex, MD, FASGE, reviewing Mangira D, et al. Gastrointest Endosc 2020 Jan 15. In 5 Australian academic hospitals, cold EMR was performed on

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Endoscopic Resection Effective for SSPs ≥10 mm in Meta-analysis; Cold EMR May Be Best

Endoscopic Resection Effective for SSPs ≥10 mm in Meta-analysis; Cold EMR May Be Best

Douglas K. Rex, MD, FASGE reviewing Chandrasekar VT, et al. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2019 Nov 28. This systematic review and meta-analysis identified 911 patients with