The introduction of bowel cancer screening, in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and many other Western countries, has provided considerable interest and no little diagnostic consternation ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The chance that a screening sigmoidoscopy will miss a potentially cancerous polyp increases with age, and is up to 50% for people 70 years and older, an analysis of more than 120,000 ...

A surgeon used the DiLumen C2 to remove a sigmoid polyp in a 62-year-old patient without surgical intervention. 1. The DiLumen device is an endoscopic dual balloon colon stabilization accessory. It ...

POLYPS of the rectum and colon have been observed with increasing frequency in the past few years, particularly because of the emphasis placed upon sigmoidoscopy as a method of early detection of ...

Images of positive CT colonography (CTC) screening examination result in an asymptomatic 67-year-old man. Three-dimensional colon map from CTC (left image) shows the location of two sigmoid polyps ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...

WASHINGTON — Cold snare polypectomy safely removed small colonic polyps with minimal immediate complications and no known late complications, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

A patient who had repeatedly refused routine screening for colorectal cancer (CRC), despite having lost his 80-year-old father to the disease, was again advised to undergo a colonoscopy at age 56. He ...

Because of their difficult location or size, some polyps are impossible to remove with a flexible colonoscope and must be surgically removed. Laparoscopy is a great alternative. To assess outcomes of ...