Background and Aim: The technical performance of colonoscopy performed in deeply sedated patients differs from that performed without sedation or under minimal to moderate sedation. The aim of this ...

CLINICAL findings and laboratory tests frequently fail to indicate accurately the pathologic status of the gall bladder in acute cholecystitis. Gangrene with incipient or actual perforation may exist ...

Researchers have found that technically efficient screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires experience with 150 cases or more. Colonoscopy is a fiberoptic (endoscopic) procedure in which ...

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THIS study is based on 242 patients who were operated on between 1930 and 1950 for carcinoma of the right colon. This group includes patients with carcinoma of the cecum, the ascending colon and the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy seems to prevent about two-thirds of deaths from colon cancer, rather than 90 percent as has been widely claimed, a study ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;27(1):76-80. In agreement with previous studies, the present results showed that constipation was a predictor of lower cecal intubation rates. Church reported a ...

Researchers from Korea have found that technically efficient screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires experience with 150 cases or more. The study appears in the April issue of ...