Implementation of optical diagnosis with a “resect and discard” strategy in clinical practice: DISCARD3 study

Post written by Ahmir Ahmad, MRCP, from the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, London, UK. Real-time optical diagnosis (OD) is now possible because of image-enhancing technologies offering the potential for huge cost and time savings associated with histopathology.  Despite several GI societies endorsing a “resect and discard” strategy for low-risk diminutive polyps, there …

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Patient preferences of resect and discard paradigm

Dayna S. Early, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, USA discusses this Original Article, "Patient preferences of a resect and discard paradigm." Resect and discard is a new paradigm for management of diminutive polyps, in which small polpys are resected and discarded instead of being …

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