An evaluation of flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy.
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- 12 December 1981
- Vol. 283 (6306), 1583-1586
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.283.6306.1583
Abstract
Results of 350 flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy examinations showed a diagnostic yield of 30% compared with 6.5% by rigid sigmoidoscopy of the same patients. The mean time for the examinations was eight minutes, a distance of over 50 cm being visualised in 65% of the patients. Preparation of the bowel with a single phosphate enema was adequate in 95% of the patients. As an outpatient investigation for clinicians fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy is a safe, quick, and useful addition to rigid sigmoidoscopy and should result in a decrease in the number of barium enema examinations required.Keywords
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