In all, 545 patients underwent total colonoscopy. The clinical characteristics of these patients are provided in Table 1. Because rectal therapy may affect inflammatory activity in the rectum and ...

THE purpose of this paper is to advocate a more aggressive attitude toward the surgical treatment of diverticulitis of the colon, which in the past has usually been withheld until after complications ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent study showed strong correlations between rectosigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy in evaluations of disease ...

IT is well recognized that cancer cells implanted onto a raw tissue surface are capable not only of surviving there but also of growing and forming a metastatic nodule. Accordingly, when a malignant ...

This release is available in Spanish. Flexible sigmoidoscopy, a screening test for colorectal cancer that is less invasive and has fewer side effects than colonoscopy, is effective in reducing the ...