Colonoscopy

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In medicine, colonoscopy is a "endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the luminal surface of the colon."[1]

Withdrawing the colonoscopy too fast may cause missing of important abnormalities.[2]

References

  1. Anonymous (2024), Colonoscopy (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  2. Barclay RL, Vicari JJ, Doughty AS, Johanson JF, Greenlaw RL (December 2006). "Colonoscopic withdrawal times and adenoma detection during screening colonoscopy". The New England journal of medicine 355 (24): 2533–41. DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa055498. PMID 17167136. Research Blogging.