Recent advances in colonoscopy

Improving the utility of colonoscopy: Recent advances in practice.

Colonoscopy is a frequently performed diagnostic and therapeutic test and the primary screening tool in several nationalized bowel cancer screening programs. There has been a considerable focus on maximizing the utility of colonoscopy. This has occurred in four key areas: Optimizing patient selection to reduce unnecessary or low yield colonoscopy has offered cost-benefit improvements in populat...

Advances in diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW We review current studies on endoscopic and technologic advances for the detection and treatment of colorectal neoplasia. RECENT FINDINGS Improvements in adenoma detection have been shown to be possible with the use of high definition white light as well as water-related methods such as water exchange. Use of cap assist colonoscopy, when combined with water-related methods, ...

Recent advances in automated lesion detection for CT colonography by second order curvature flow

Over the past few years, techniques for CT colonography evolved rapidly, stimulated by encouraging performance data. Computer aided detection (CAD) methods were developed that enhance the efficiency of reading the data. Our objective in this paper is to review some recent advances on this topic, by others as well by ourselves.

Updates in small bowel imaging and endoscopy.

The field of gastroenterology has had an abundance of technological advances in recent years, especially in the field of endoscopy. These advances are helpful to clinicians approaching gastrointestinal blood loss, especially in the small bowel. The authors report a case of a man who presented to the emergency department with obscure gastrointestinal blood loss. Results of an esophagogastroduode...

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