Diagnostic quality of polyps resected by snare polypectomy: Does the type of electrosurgical current used matter?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2123-2127

  Fry, Lucía C ^a   Lazenby, Audrey J ^b   Mikolaenko, Irina ^b   Barranco, Brent ^a   Rickes, Steffen ^a,c   Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYP; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOPSY; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33748376271     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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