Cold Snare Polypectomy

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Cold Snare Looks Good for Pedunculated Polyps Smaller Than 10 mm

This systematic review and meta-analysis identified 6 studies with 1025 patients and 1111 polyps with a mean size ranging from 4 to 8.5 mm. Cold

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Cold Snare Safer Than Hot Snare for 4- to 10-mm Colorectal Polyps in Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

Cold snare polypectomy is now widely accepted as the treatment of choice for colorectal polyps 4 to 10 mm in size. Despite overwhelming evidence that

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Cold Snare Polypectomy Failed for 10- to 20-mm Colorectal Polyps

Cold snare is now considered the polypectomy method of choice for polyps <10 mm in size, and recent studies have extended the use of cold

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Cold Snare Polypectomy of Pedunculated Polyps ≤10 mm: Choking Stalk for ≥10 Seconds Before Resection Reduces Immediate Bleeding

Cold snare polypectomy is now accepted as safer than hot resection of lesions ≤10 mm in size, though it is still widely believed that electrocautery

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Cold Snare Polypectomy Failed to Achieve Complete Resection in 11% of 4- to 9-mm Polyps

In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) performed at 8 hospitals in 4 countries, patients with nonpedunculated polyps ranging in size from 4 to 9 mm

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Proving What We All Know: Hot Snare Polypectomy Causes More Delayed Bleeding Than Cold Snare

This was a retrospective analysis of bleeding after cold snare polypectomy (CSP) and hot snare polypectomy (HSP) for colorectal lesions with a diameter <10 mm.

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Randomized Controlled Trial of Thin Versus Thick Cold Snare Polypectomy for Small Polyps: Not Much Difference

Cold snare polypectomy is now considered the resection method of choice for colorectal lesions ≤10 mm in size. Dedicated snares with a wire diameter about

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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