Abdominal Surgery

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ColonColonoscopyOne of the important uses for colonoscopy is to detect the source of rectal bleeding when the results of a barium enema examination and a rigid sigmoidoscopy are normal. Among 306 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who had rectal bleeding,112 probable sources were found in 30 per cent, including polyps over 0.5 cm in diameter in 14 per cent and cancer in 8 per cent. One hundred five patients also had diverticulosis, which in the absence of colonoscopy would have been assumed to be the source of the bleeding. In 10 per cent of the cases the cecum . . .