Adherence to the most recent guidelines for appropriate polypectomy techniques is suboptimal, according to one institution’s review of its resections.
The analysis found that roughly half of small polyps were removed using hot snare polypectomy, not cold snare as recommended by the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer (USMSTF), researchers reported at the 2020 virtual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology (abstract P0740).
Polypectomy techniques vary widely in