Colonoscopy

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In medicine, colonoscopy is a "endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the luminal surface of the colon."[1]

Colonosopy is not perfect and may miss colonic polyps that could lead to colorectal cancer.[2] Withdrawing the colonoscopy too fast may cause missing of important abnormalities.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Anonymous (2024), Colonoscopy (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  2. ↑ Rex DK, Cutler CS, Lemmel GT, et al (January 1997). "Colonoscopic miss rates of adenomas determined by back-to-back colonoscopies". Gastroenterology 112 (1): 24–8. PMID 8978338. [e]
  3. ↑ Barclay RL, Vicari JJ, Doughty AS, Johanson JF, Greenlaw RL (December 2006). "Colonoscopic withdrawal times and adenoma detection during screening colonoscopy". The New England journal of medicine 355 (24): 2533–41. DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa055498. PMID 17167136. Research Blogging.
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