"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 ...

Introduction: Bleeding per rectum is not an infrequent complaint during pregnancy, which may require endoscopic evaluation and treatment. Flexible sigmoidoscopy a relatively simple, quick procedure. The current study was aimed to assess the usefulness of flexible in bleeding pregnancy from single tertiary care centre. Methods: A centre retrospective carried out. Randomly selected 1000 medical r...

Flexible fiberoptic sigmoidoscopy has gained wide acceptance among family physicians for colorectal cancer screening and as a diagnostic tool in patients with symptoms referable to the lower gastrointestinal tract. The procedure is generally regarded as safe, and serious complications are rare. I Reported here is an unusual case of a 36-year-old man, with no history of cardiac disease, who deve...

Introduction: The prevalence of diverticular disease has been increasing in the western world over last few decades, causing a growing burden on health care systems. objectives this study are to compare uses flexible sigmoidoscopy versus colonoscopy as follow up investigation for patients diagnosed with acute left sided diverticulitis, and evaluate need using either procedure.

Adequate investigation of the left side of the large bowel and the rectum requires examination by sigmoidoscope and by barium enema. In the lower pelvic colon and the upper rectum these investigations are complementary and sigmoidoscopy may give a clue to disease higher up. Welin (1958) is of the opinion that, using the double contrast method, barium examination of the rectum is in many cases s...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic yield of flexible sigmoidoscopy when performed as a routine procedure in asymptomatic patients over the age of 40 being referred for a complete physical examination. The preliminary results of this ongoing program are presented together with the diagnostic yield in 408 patients with symptoms and signs suggestive of colorectal disease who ...

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...

We evaluated whether age- and gender-based colorectal cancer screening is cost-effective.Recent studies in the United States identified age and gender as 2 important variables predicting advanced proximal neoplasia, and that women aged <60 to 70 years were more suited for sigmoidoscopy screening due to their low risk of proximal neoplasia. Yet, quantitative assessment of the incremental benefit...

GOALS The aim of this paper was to discuss association between adenoma detection rate (ADR) and interval colorectal cancer risk. BACKGROUND Adenoma detection rate is being used as a benchmark quality measure for colonoscopy. There are three studies showing inverse association between ADR and interval colorectal cancer risk. One recent study reports significant impact of increased ADR on decre...