Should CT colonoscopy replace flexible sigmoidoscopy?

Sigmoidoscopy versus colonoscopy: ask yourself.

Right Colonoscopy vs Sigmoidoscopy Screening : Getting It

Use of Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Among African Americans and Whites in a Low-Income Population

Colorectal cancer is the third most common incident cancer and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States. The disease is largely preventable with screening. In the United States, colorectal cancer mortality is higher among African Americans than among whites, possibly because of inequalities in the delivery of screening, diagnostic, and therapeutic regimens (1,2)...

Open-access flexible sigmoidoscopy frequently leads to additional colonoscopy in symptomatic patients over 50 years.

BACKGROUND & AIMS General practitioners (GPs) in the Netherlands have open access to flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) for patients with lower gastrointestinal symptoms, but not to colonoscopy. This study was performed to investigate the yield of FS in GP-referred patients, to evaluate the proportion of patients in whom additional colonoscopy was performed and to investigate whether there was a subgr...

Conversion of colonoscopy to flexible sigmoidoscopy: an unintended consequence of quality measurement in endoscopy

OBJECTIVE To quantify the proportion of requests for colonoscopy that are performed as flexible sigmoidoscopy and documented reasons for this in ordinary UK hospital practice. To determine the effect these requests have on colonoscopy completion rate if they are included in the denominator of the calculated rate by individual endoscopist. DESIGN Retrospective study of 22 months flexible sigmo...