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 & ...

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"Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and ...

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% ...

Prophylactic closure of defects after endoscopic submucosal dissection of the colon reduces delayed bleeding and may lower ...

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 ...

When Today in Ohio host Laura Johnston turned 45 this year, she faced a medical milestone many dread: her first colonoscopy. Her candid discussion about the experience on the cleveland.com and Plain ...

Treating nasal polyps isn’t a one-and-done procedure. The complications from these growths, which develop in the lining of ...

Clinicians have a new line of weapons in their arsenal to treat recurring nasal polyps. Over the past year several new monoclonal antibody-based biologic drugs have been approved to treat the ...