In medicine, a polypectomy is the surgical removal of an abnormal growth of tissue called a polyp. Polypectomy can be performed by excision if the polyp...

Colonic polypectomy is the removal of colorectal polyps in order to prevent them from turning cancerous. Gastrointestinal polyps can be removed endoscopically...

pioneered modern colonoscopic techniques, and invented the electrosurgical polypectomy snare now common on colonoscopes, allowing for removal of colon polyps...

(Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), colon cancer, or polyps. Colonic polypectomy has become a routine part of colonoscopy, allowing quick and simple removal...

is a condition that occurs following colonoscopy with electrocautery polypectomy, which results in a burn injury to the wall of the gastrointestinal tract...

removed at the time of colonoscopy, either with a wire loop known as a polypectomy snare (first description by P. Deyhle, Germany, 1970), or with biopsy...

Source Ball pen Polypectomy sling N.A. Water-filled balloon Punction N.A. Chicken bone Polypectomy sling N.A. Toothpick Polypectomy sling N.A. Apple...

drugs). A history of hemorrhoidectomy, fissure surgery, fistula surgery, polypectomy, or colectomy may be relevant. Gastrointestinal symptoms can also result...

of treatment for these conditions include: colectomy, ileo/colostomy, polypectomy, strictureplasty, hemorrhoidectomy (in severe cases of hemorrhoids),...

anal canal or rectum and rectal polyp. It is used therapeutically for polypectomy and rectal biopsy. Disposable proctoscopes without light are also available...