Patient outcomes: The only size that eventually matters in dealing with colonic neoplasia

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2021; 09(11): 1843-1844
DOI: 10.1055/a-1591-0593

Letter to the editor

Thomas Bjørsum-Meyer

¹Department of Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Denmark

²Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

,

Anastasious Koulaouzidis

³Department of Social Medicine & Public Health, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

,

Gunnar Baatrup

¹Department of Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Denmark

²Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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