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Published on Tue Jun 13, 2017
Question: A patient had a screening colonoscopy in which our surgeon found and removed multiple adenomatous polyps. The patient’s primary physician ordered the patient to return to our surgeon for a six-month “screening surveillance” colonoscopy, which he ordered with a diagnosis of personal history of adenomatous polyp. Our surgeon performed the second colonoscopy with no findings that required tissue removal. What [...]