Can post-polypectomy surveillance be less intensive?
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Post-Polypectomy Colonoscopy Surveillance
Surveillance is becoming common in the practice of colonoscopy because a large number of patients with colorectal polyps are now being discovered as a result of the increased use of colorectal cancer screening, and particularly because of the dramatic increase in screening colonoscopy. Although the term ‘colorectal polyp’ is not synonymous with colorectal adenoma, two-thirds of colorectal polyp...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1470-2045
DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(17)30305-4