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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-1-3
pubmed:abstractText
Colonoscopy is the initial examination for patients with manifest or occult rectal bleeding, inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal polyps. In addition to polypectomy, colonoscopy is useful in decompression of adynamic colonileus and laser palliation of intractable tumours. In adenoma patients controls should be limited to high risk patients, i.e. those with large and multiple tubular adenomas, villous adenomas, multiple hyperplastic polyps (> 30), and first degree relatives of patients with colorectal carcinomas. Control after radical surgical treatment of colorectal cancer is offered during the first two years after the operation and to persons younger than 40 years. The efficacy of control programmes for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer families have to be evaluated in controlled series. Rectosigmoidoscopies could probably replace some total colonoscopies to examine ulcerative colitis patients for cancer, since cancer usually occurs in the distal colon. Complications are rare after diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopies, but perforation, bleeding and injury to surrounding organs can be experienced.
pubmed:language
nor
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0029-2001
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
114
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2596-600
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-7-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
[Colonoscopy. In investigation, treatment and control of gastrointestinal diseases].
pubmed:affiliation
Medisinsk avdeling, Diakonissehjemmets sykehus, Bergen.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract