Effectiveness of polyethylene glycol antegrade gut lavage bowel preparation for colonoscopy—timing is the key!
- 1 October 1998
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 41 (10) , 1223-1225
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02258217
Abstract
PURPOSE:Polyethylene glycol gut lavage is an effective bowel preparation for colonoscopy. The quality of the preparation is not uniform however, and most studies report a rate of suboptimal cleansing of 10 percent or more. One of the possible reasons for a poor preparation is the length of tKeywords
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