Here are 12 statistics on ambulatory surgery center and physician Medicare payments for gastroenterology/endoscopy procedures involving polypectomy, according to Boston Scientific’s 2014 Coding & ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The reason we have this talk is because we think of polypectomy as entailing higher risk, of course,” Thomas ...

Currently, patients taking anticoagulants to prevent stroke and blood clots are often recommended to stop these medications in order to perform colonoscopy with removal of polyps. However, ...

In the first study to demonstrate a direct effect on patient care, an NIH-funded study published in Gastroenterology found that a simulation-based mastery learning curriculum significantly improved ...

US endoscopists frequently stray from established best practices when removing colon polyps smaller than 1 cm, with fewer than 60% of procedures using the recommended cold snare technique, an analysis ...

For nonpedunculated polyps measuring 3 mm or less, cold forceps polypectomy is noninferior to cold snare polypectomy and takes significantly less time, according to the results of the TINYPOLYP trial.

Overall survival using local excision techniques with and without radiation compared with APR for stage I rectal cancer: A SEER based analysis No significant financial relationships to disclose. This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Crockett and colleagues randomly assigned patients with large ( 20 mm) non-pedunculated polyps who underwent ...

Heidi Montag is opening up about her journey with infertility. In a new Youtube video posted Thursday, Montag revealed she underwent a hysteroscopic polypectomy procedure, which is a surgical ...