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Table 6 Cold snare polypectomy

Ref.	Year	Country	Study design	n	Polyp morphology	Procedure	Medication	Relative risk
Paspatis et al[27]	2011	Greece	Prospective	530	Polyp size 3-8 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB. Incidence of immediate/intraprocedural bleeding 9.1%
Ichise et al[44]	2011	Japan	Prospective	101	Polyp size < 8 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Gómez et al[37]	2015	United States	Prospective	21	Polyp size < 6 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Choksi et al[51]	2015	United States	Retrospective	15	Polyp size ≥ 10 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Muniraj et al[52]	2015	United States	Retrospective	12	Polyp size ≥ 10 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Piraka et al[53]	2017	United States	Retrospective	94	Polyp size ≥ 10 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Hirose et al[54]	2017	Japan	Retrospective	125	Polyp size ≥ 10 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Tutticci et al[55]	2018	Australia	Prospective	163	Polyp size ≥ 10 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Zhang et al[48]	2018	China	Prospective	212	Polyp size 6-9 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB. Incidence of immediate/intraprocedural bleeding 2.7%
Suzuki et al[38]	2018	Japan	Prospective	25	Polyp size ≤ 10 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB
Kawamura et al[39]	2018	Japan	Prospective	394	Polyp size 4-9 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB. Incidence of immediate/intraprocedural bleeding 7.1%
Ket et al[40]	2020	Australia	Retrospective	346	Polyp size 10-20 mm	CSP	No medications	No incidence of PPB

CSP: Cold snare polypectomy; PPB: Post-procedural bleeding.