Cold Snare Polypectomy

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Cold Snare Looks Good for Pedunculated Polyps Smaller Than 10 mm

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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