Safety of cold polypectomy for <10mm polyps at colonoscopy: A prospective multicenter study

Endoscopy

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-31

  Repici, A ^a   Hassan, C ^a   Vitetta, E ^a   Ferrara, E ^a   Manes, G ^b   Gullotti, G ^c   Princiotta, A ^c   Dulbecco, P ^d   Gaffuri, N ^a   Bettoni, E ^a   Pagano, N ^a   Rando, G ^a   Strangio, G ^a   Carlino, A ^a   Romeo, F ^a   De Paula Pessoa Ferreira, D ^a   Zullo, A ^a   Ridola, L ^e   Malesci, A ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; TICLOPIDINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; COLD POLYPECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYP; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCENTIMETRIC POLYP;

AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84455202341     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291387     Document Type: Review

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