WASHINGTON, DC — The chance that a screening sigmoidoscopy will miss a potentially cancerous polyp increases with age, and is up to 50% for people 70 years and older, an analysis of more than 120,000 ...

A surgeon used the DiLumen C2 to remove a sigmoid polyp in a 62-year-old patient without surgical intervention. 1. The DiLumen device is an endoscopic dual balloon colon stabilization accessory. It ...

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Flexible sigmoidoscopy is a test that a doctor uses to check the inner lining of your rectum and the lower part of your colon. You may get this test if you have certain gut problems, such as abdominal ...

Images of positive CT colonography (CTC) screening examination result in an asymptomatic 67-year-old man. Three-dimensional colon map from CTC (left image) shows the location of two sigmoid polyps ...

POLYPS of the rectum and colon have been observed with increasing frequency in the past few years, particularly because of the emphasis placed upon sigmoidoscopy as a method of early detection of ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and is ...