Delayed hemorrhage following “hot biopsy” of a diminutive colonic polyp

Therapeutic Intervention for Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

“…Perforation has also been reported with application of the technique to the upper gastrointestinal tract (57‐59). In the colon the risk of perforation is 0.05%; this is less than the complication rate associated with snare polypectomy but greater than that of routine colonoscopy (60,61).…”