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Endoscopic Treatments
• Polyp
removal
Polyps are benign growths involving the lining of the
bowel (noncancerous tumors or neoplasms). Most polyps
found during colonoscopy can be completely removed during
the procedure. Various removal techniques are available;
most involve severing them with a wire loop and/or burning
the polyp base with an electric current. This is called
polyp resection. Because the bowel’s lining isn’t sensitive
to cutting or burning, polyp resection doesn’t cause discomfort.
Resected polyps are then examined under a microscope to
determine the tissue type and to detect any cancer.
• Control
of GI bleeding
When your physician speaks about GI bleeding, he/she is
usually not talking about an external wound that results
in visible bleeding from one or more GI organs, but rather
means something more specific. Bleeding in the gastrointestinal
tract means that some part of the body represented in
the diagram above is bleeding internally, either slightly
(which may or may not be very serious) or heavily (which
may have serious health consequences).
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