Cold snaring diminutive polyps: can we make of a polyp … a better polyp?

Alessandro Repici; Cesare Hassan

doi:10.1055/s-0034-1393253

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2015; 47(11): 969-971
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1393253

Editorial

Cold snaring diminutive polyps: can we make of a polyp … a better polyp?

Alessandro Repici

¹Digestive Endoscopy Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy

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Cesare Hassan

²Gastroenterology Department, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy

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