Recent advances in colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is an important and frequently performed procedure. It is effective in the prevention of colorectal cancer and is an important test in the investigation of many gastrointestinal symptoms. This review focuses on developments over the last 5 years that have led to changes in aspects of col...

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Autores principales: Lee, Thomas J.W., Nair, Shelley, Beintaris, Iosif, Rutter, Matthew D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4792201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26998247
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7567.1
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description Colonoscopy is an important and frequently performed procedure. It is effective in the prevention of colorectal cancer and is an important test in the investigation of many gastrointestinal symptoms. This review focuses on developments over the last 5 years that have led to changes in aspects of colonoscopy, including patient preparation, technical factors, therapeutic procedures, safety, and quality.
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spelling pubmed-47922012016-03-18 Recent advances in colonoscopy Lee, Thomas J.W. Nair, Shelley Beintaris, Iosif Rutter, Matthew D. F1000Res Review Colonoscopy is an important and frequently performed procedure. It is effective in the prevention of colorectal cancer and is an important test in the investigation of many gastrointestinal symptoms. This review focuses on developments over the last 5 years that have led to changes in aspects of colonoscopy, including patient preparation, technical factors, therapeutic procedures, safety, and quality. F1000Research 2016-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4792201/ /pubmed/26998247 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7567.1 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Lee TJW et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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