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Post-colonoscopy appendicitis: A systematic review

Asian Journal of Surgery
Post-colonoscopy appendicitis is an infrequent complication of colonoscopy. This systematic review aimed to summarize the literature's current notions, clinical features, and management of post-colonoscopy appendicitis.
Kostas Tepelenis, Christos K. Stefanou, Stefanos K. Stefanou, Evangelos Sitos, Frideriki Steliou, Konstantinos Mpakas, Dimitra Lepida, Theocharis Chatzoglou, Thomas Iraklis Smyris, Maria Alexandra Kefala   +9 more
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Virtual colonoscopy versus optical colonoscopy [PDF]

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics, 2010
IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD: The high prevalence of colon carcinoma combined with the low compliance of currently recommended screening guidelines explains the continued high mortality rate of colon cancer. Utilizing a strategy of virtual colonoscopy (VC) in asymptomatic patients over 50, with optical colonoscopy (OC) follow-up for removal of detected ...
Zhengrong, Liang, Robert, Richards
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Operative Colonoscopy [PDF]

BMJ, 1973
In 12 patients with radiologically-proved lesions of the colon total retrograde fibreoptic colonoscopy was performed on the unopened bowel at laparotomy. Additional polyps were found in five patients, and in four of these the polyp was not readily palpable through the bowel wall.
H J, Espiner, P R, Salmon, R H, Teague, A E, Read   +3 more
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Risk of advanced colorectal neoplasia according to age and gender. [PDF]

, 2011
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer related morbidity and death. Despite the fact that the mean age at diagnosis of CRC is lower in men, screening by colonoscopy or fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is initiated at same age in ...
Alexander Crispin, Burkhard Göke, Wagner, A., Crispin, Alexander, Göke, Burkhard, Frank T. Kolligs, Frank T Kolligs, Kolligs, Frank T., Andreas Wagner, Kolligs, F. T., Mansmann, Ulrich, Ulrich Mansmann, Wagner, Andreas, Axel Munte, Munte, A., Munte, Axel, Göke Burkhard, Wagner Andreas, Munte Axel, Crispin Alexander, Kolligs Frank T., Mansmann Ulrich   +21 more
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Colonoscopy [PDF]

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 1972
Colonoscopy is an accepted technique for investigation of the colon. No portion of the large bowel is inaccessible to the diagnostic and therapeutic approach by flexible colonoscopy. The technical aspects of instrumentation have yielded to progress, with a small television chip currently incorporated into the tip of endoscopes transmitting an excellent
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The Difficult Colonoscopy [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2007
Colorectal cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death among nonsmokers in Canada (1) and is the second leading cause of cancer mortality overall. It is estimated that in 2007, approximately 21,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and that nearly 9000 will die from it (2).
Todd N Witte, Robert Enns
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Adherence to surveillance colonoscopy guidelines in patients following curative-intent colorectal cancer resection

Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, 2021
Background: Current guidelines recommend that patients who have undergone curative-intent resection for colorectal cancer (CRC) should undergo colonoscopy one year following their surgery or at six months post-operatively if a pre-operative colonoscopy ...
Kyle Stephens, Bridget N. Fahy
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Evaluation of the accuracy of serum MMP-9 as a test for colorectal cancer in a primary care population [PDF]

, 2006
Background Bowel cancer is common and is a major cause of death. Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials estimates that screening for colorectal cancer using faecal occult blood (FOB) test reduces mortality from colorectal cancer by 16%.
Michael JO Wakelam, Colbourne, L, Janet A Dunn, Val D Redman, Lynne Colbourne, Dunn, Janet, Martin Ashley, Wakelam, Michael, Hobbs Richard FD, Wakelam, Michael J.O., Sue Wilson, Martin, Ashley, Wilson, Sue, Dr, Redman, Valerie, Colbourne Lynne, Redman, Val. D., Colbourne, Lynne, Ryan, Angela V., Wilson Sue, Angela V Ryan, Tariq Ismail, Fiona Patrick, Ashley Martin, Richard FD Hobbs, Ryan Angela V, Patrick, Fiona, Patrick, F, Ismail, Tariq, Ismail Tariq, Dunn, Janet A., Wilson, Sue, Redman Val D, Ryan, Angela, Dunn Janet A, Hobbs, RF, Hobbs, Richard F. D., Patrick Fiona, Wakelam Michael JO   +37 more
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Virtual colonoscopy

The Lancet, 2002
Computerized tomographic colonography (CT colonography) is a new, non-invasive technique that has been developed over the last few years; it looks at the large bowel in detail. In this chapter we look at how the examination is performed and we consider how the images are displayed.
Clare S, Smith, Helen M, Fenlon
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Significance of fecal hemoglobin concentration for predicting risk of colorectal cancer after colonoscopy

JGH Open, 2020
Background and Aim As the significance of the quantitative fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in patients who previously underwent a colonoscopy is unknown, this study aimed at investigating the association between fecal hemoglobin concentration and the ...
Takuji Kawamura, Takato Inoue, Ryo Shinomiya, Hiroaki Sakai, Kana Amamiya, Naokuni Sakiyama, Atsushi Shirakawa, Yusuke Okada, Kasumi Sanada, Kojiro Nakase, Koichiro Mandai, Azumi Suzuki, Mai Kamaguchi, Atsushi Morita, Kenichi Nishioji, Kiyohito Tanaka, Koji Uno, Isao Yokota, Masao Kobayashi, Kenjiro Yasuda   +19 more
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