The fear of being sued deters many endoscopists from using the resect-and-discard strategy to manage diminutive polyps in the colon, a new survey has found.
In the worst-case scenario, not sending a polyp to pathology could mean missing cancer in a patient, even if the chances of that happening are very small, said Daniel von Renteln, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Montreal, who helped conduct the survey. “The risks of making a mistake are