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colonoscopy

[‚kō·lə′näs·kə·pē]

(medicine)

Visual examination of the inner surface of the colon by means of an endoscope.

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11) They found significant lesions, including cancers, polyps, colitis, angiodysplasia, diverticula, and rectal ulcers in 21% and concluded that full colonoscopy should be seriously considered even in this younger population.

Consider colonoscopy for young patients with hematochezia

The study is a tabulation of the 9-year experience of a family physician who advanced from flexible sigmoidoscopy to full colonoscopy in his office and in a hospital-based outpatient endoscopy suite.

Colonoscopy by a family physician: a 9-year experience of 1048 procedures

Clemons describe as the first reported prospective study of adenoma incidence to use a control group, supports the recommendations of the American College of Gastroenterology and the America Cancer Society that full colonoscopy is warranted patients found to have small adenomas on flexible sigmoidoscopy.