Abstract:Objective To investigate the safety and efficacy of cold snare for resection of small colorectal polyps ( < 10 mm).Methods From the establishment of the database to March 2020, Embase, PubMed, the Cochrane library, CNKI and WanFang were electronically searched for relevant randomized controlled trials of comparing CSP and HSP or cold forceps for remove ≤ 10 mm colorectal polyps were considered. Specimens were obtained from the wound edge after polypectomy to evaluate the complete resection rate, and those with complications reported were included in this study. The Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool was used to evaluate the methodological quality of the included studies, and the Meta quantitative analysis was carried out with RevMan 5.3 software.Results 11 RCT involving 2 211 patients and 2 917 polyps were analyzed. The results show that complete resection rate using CSP was similar to HSP (93.9% vs 96.0%, O: 0.62, 95% CI: 0.28~1.35, P > 0.05). The rate of immediate bleeding was higher in CSP group than that in HSP group (10.1% vs 3.2%, O: 3.26, 95%CI: 1.36~7.82, P < 0.01). specific polypectomy time in CSP group was shorter than that in HSP group (MD:-21.73, 95%CI: -38.72~-4.74, P < 0.05). There was no difference in delayed bleeding rate, perforation and polyp retrieval between CSP and HSP group. In addition, complete resection rate using CSP was significantly higher than cold forceps (93.9% vs 87.1%, O: 2.23, 95%CI: 1.45~3.43, P < 0.01). Polyp retrieval after CSP was lower than cold forceps (95.4% vs 100.0%, O: 0.09, 95% CI: 0.02~0.34, P < 0.01). There was no difference in immediate bleeding rate, delayed bleeding rate, perforation, specific polypectomy time between CSP and cold forceps group.Conclusion CSP can be used as one of the first choice techniques for resection of small colorectal polyps < 10 mm.