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 & ...

Among patients with high-risk malignant colorectal polyps, 19% had residual disease, with rates of 25% in the immediate surgery group vs 9% in the nonoperative management group. The rate of rectum and ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 78-year-old male who recently had a colonoscopy and had several polyps removed, but there was also a “flat polyp” that couldn’t be removed. My doctor said that he usually ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cold snare polypectomy for colorectal polyps smaller than 1 cm significantly reduced the risk for delayed ...

The probability of revision sinus surgery including the removal of nasal polyps is higher if the patient has asthma or is on antibiotics at the time of their initial surgery. However, higher age was ...

Use of GI Genius increased mean adenomas per colonoscopy (1.56 vs. 1.21) as well as adenoma detection rate (56.6% vs. 48.4%). The module also had a higher sessile serrated polyp detection rate (11.6% ...