The gastrointestinal polyp is a premalignant lesion in varying degree. According to the size, the pathology and the location of polyps, it should be removed. Polyps in the gastrointestinal tract can be removed by surgical excision,
electrosurgery,
cryotherapy, regional radiotherapy and laser therapy with some limitations.
Considerable advance in therapeutic endoscopy as well as in diagnostic endoscopy along with newly developed instruments has now made it possible to excise gastrointetinal polyps by means of high frequency generator.
We have underwent endoscopic polypectomy, strip biopsy and " O" ring ligation on gastric polyps in 112 patients who visited in this hospital from July 1988 to January 1994, and the clinical characteristics including histopathology has been
evaluated.
Removed polyps were variable in size from less than 0.5 cm up to 4 cm, Finally, we concluded that endoscopic polypectomy is a safe and relatively simple procedure and postpolypectomy complication can be considerably reduced by conservative
antiulcer
therapy.
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