Although inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) typically presents with gastrointestinal complaints, mucocutaneous lesions are commonly associated and can precede gastrointestinal symptoms, thereby alerting the clinician to the diagnosis of IBD before the onset of gastrointestinal symptoms. Nine children are reported who had no gastrointestinal symptoms suggestive of IBD but presented with mucocutane...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This prospective trial was designed to compare the performance characteristics of five different screening tests in parallel for the detection of advanced colonic neoplasia: CT colonography (CTC), colonoscopy (OC), flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS), faecal immunochemical stool testing (FIT) and faecal occult blood testing (FOBT). METHODS Average risk adults provided stool specim...

Dr. Rebecca C. Bell (Pediatrics): A 6-day-old boy was admitted to this hospital because of vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal distention. The patient was born at another hospital to a teenaged primigravida by vaginal delivery after a full-term, uncomplicated gestation. The mother had received prenatal care; she had no history of sexually transmitted infections, and prenatal screening tests were ...

background success of screening programs depends on the people belief toward the importance and necessityof these programs . this study was conducted to determine the effect of health belief on participation of official administrative personnel of shiraz university of medical sciences with an average risk (age: 40 years) for colorectal cancer in fecal occult blood test (fobt). materials and met...

The only widely used screening test for early detection of colorectal cancer, the fecal occult blood test, lacks both sensitivity and specificity because it relies upon incidental bleeding rather than the neoplastic process. With the purpose of developing a new noninvasive diagnostic approach, we quantified DNA extracted from cells isolated from the surface of human stools by a novel procedure....

Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening method using stool DNA testing has shown greater detection rate than conventional fecal occult blood testing. The aim of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of detection method using three promoter methylation markers of the ITGA4, SFRP2 and p16 for colorectal adenoma and carcinoma. Methods: The methylation status of the ITGA4, ...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening by fecal occult blood test (FOBT) significantly reduces CRC mortality, and compliance rates directly influence the efficacy of this screening method. The aim of this study is to investigate whether stool collection strategies affect compliance with the FOBT. METHODS/DESIGN In total, 3,596 study participants aged between 50 and 74 years will be recr...