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BENITEZ GONZALEZ, Yoandra. Videoendoscopic Polypectomy Importance in the Treatment of Polyps of Rectosigmoid Region. ccm [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.1, pp.4-12. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: endoscopic rectocolic polypectomy causes a revolution in the treatment of benign colic tumor and is the most frequently used procedure in the management of polyps. The purpose of the polypectomy is the removal of any injury and leave conventional surgery for polyps with a simple polypectomy is not enough, it is a safe, fast and efficient routine procedure. Objectives: to evaluate the results of endoscopic polypectomy performed at Vladimir Ilich Lenin hospital. Assess the importance of rectosigmoidoscopy for detection and treatment of premalignant lesions. Method: a retrospective study of cases series was performed in 51 patients who underwent video-endoscopic rectosigmoid polypectomy, in the period from September 2008 to December 2009, at the Department of Coloproctology of Vladimir Ilich Lenin Provincial Teaching Hospital of Holguin. Results: polyps are more common in women (60.8 %) and older than 60 years (35.3 %). Blood loss (37.3 %) was the most common presentation. From the morphological characteristics of sessile polyps form (52.9 %) and small (54.9 %) location in the rectum (60.8 %) is the most common and solitary (86.3 %) predominated. Simple adenomas (64.7 %) are the most common and a percentage of these a degree of dysplasia can be found (31.4 %). Conclusions: polypectomy technique was employed by loop diathermy technique and neither complications nor recurrences were reported.

Palabras clave : endoscopy; endoscopes; colon polyps; videoendoscopic polypectomy; rectosigmoid region.

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