Sergio Cadoni, Sauid Ishaq, Cesare Hassan, Přemysl Falt, Lorenzo Fuccio, Keith Siau, Joseph W Leung, John Anderson, Kenneth F Binmoeller, Franco Radaelli, Matt D Rutter, Shinya Sugimoto, Humayun Muhammad, Pradeep Bhandari, Peter V Draganov, Piet de Groen, Andrew Y Wang, Andrew W Yen, Chris Hamerski, Henrik Thorlacius, Helmut Neumann, Francisco Ramirez, Chris J J Mulder, Eduardo Albéniz, Arnaldo Amato, Makoto Arai, Adrian Bak, Maximilien Barret, Putut Bayupurnama, Ramsey Cheung, Hey-Long Ching, Hartley Cohen, Sunil Dolwani, Shai Friedland, Hideaki Harada, Yu-Hsi Hsieh, Bu Hayee, Toshio Kuwai, Vicente Lorenzo-Zúñiga, Mauro Liggi, Takeshi Mizukami, Donatella Mura, David Nylander, Snorri Olafsson, Silvia Paggi, Yanglin Pan, Adolfo Parra-Blanco, Rupert Ransford, Joaquìn Rodriguez-Sanchez, Hakan Senturk, Noriko Suzuki, Chih-Wei Tseng, Hugo Uchima, Noriya Uedo, Felix W Leung
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Since 2008, a plethora of research studies has compared the efficacy of water-assisted (aided) colonoscopy (WAC) and underwater resection (UWR) of colorectal lesions with standard colonoscopy. We reviewed and graded the research evidence with potential clinical application. We conducted a modified Delphi consensus among experienced colonoscopists on definitions and practice of water immersion (WI), water exchange (WE), and UWR. METHODS: Major databases were searched to obtain research reports that could potentially shape clinical practice related to WAC and UWR...
June 2021: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy