Proctoscopy and sigmoidoscopy.

Sigmoidoscopy/proctoscopy service with open access to general practitioners.

Many hospitals now offer barium enema examinations to general practitioners on an open access basis, so bypassing the traditional sequence of first carrying out a sigmoidoscopy. An open access sigmoidoscopy/proctoscopy service was therefore opened with requests for a barium enema being denied unless preceded by sigmoidoscopy. During the first three and a half years 1458 patients referred direct...

A lesson in sigmoidoscopy.

"watershed effect," finding 10 to 15 years ofproblems all in 2 years due to an enhanced technology, or the common effect of increased findings that happens with many new screening or casefinding programs. In any event, as a direct result of screening sigmoidoscopies, three patients have had their cancers diagnosed at an earlier time than would have otherwise happened. Most importantly, four to ...

Gender Determined Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Planning

The most common investigation carried out in UK hospitals to investigate bright red rectal bleeding is a flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS). The role of flexible sigmoidoscopy in colorectal screening has not yet been fully ascertained and colonoscopy remains the investigation of choice for the diagnosis of colonic pathology. However, FS is a simple, quick, sensitive and specific investigation to diagn...

Costs and value of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

Sigmoidoscopy versus colonoscopy: ask yourself.