A study evaluating the use of a recommended withdrawal time of six minutes from the cecum in colonoscopy procedures supports this practice as a way to improve the detection of polyps, according to ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Patrick Hellen is an avid golfer who was in good health when he underwent a routine colonoscopy in 2017. The procedure revealed a polyp in the cecum - the first ...

Subjects who were referred for screening or surveillance colonoscopy were prospectively enrolled between September 2009 and October 2010. Subjects were included in the study if they were referred for ...

Researchers have found that technically efficient screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires experience with 150 cases or more. Colonoscopy is a fiberoptic (endoscopic) procedure in which ...

A recent study compared polyp and adenoma detection rate in EndoCuff-assisted colonoscopy and traditional colonoscopy. The study included 245 patients who underwent EndoCuff-assisted colonoscopy and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cap-assisted colonoscopy can detect more polyps and requires a shorter cecal intubation time than standard ...

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 ...

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.

INTRODUCTION Narrow‑band imaging (NBI) is a new, promising technique that might be helpful in the detection of colorectal polyps during colonoscopy. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to compare the ...

INTRODUCTION: Limited data is available regarding the relationships between cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and colorectal cancer formation. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to investigate cyclooxygenase ...

Researchers from Korea have found that technically efficient screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires experience with 150 cases or more. The study appears in the April issue of ...