Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University Al-Qadisiyah, Al Diwaniyah, Iraq

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• Research   
  Cecal and Ilial Intubation Rates in Colonoscopy; Comparative Study
  Author(s): Osamah Tahir Muslim* and Hasan Osamah Al-Obaidi
  
  Background: Colonoscopy is considered to be the procedure of choice for both the diagnosis and treatment of large bowel diseases. Inspection of the whole colonic and distal portion of terminal ilial mucosa is usually feasible during colonoscopy.Colonoscopy is the best diagnostic tool to evaluate the large intestine and distal Ilium in patients complaining from bowel symptoms, anemia resulting from malabsorption, those with radiographic abnormalities of the colon, screening for colorectal carcinoma, after both polypectomy and cancer resection surveillance, surveillance in Ulcerative Colitis, and in those with suspicion of neoplastic masses. Quality examination of large bowel includes intubation of the whole colon and a thorough mucosal visualization. The investigators demonstrate that terminal ilium intubation is possible in endoscopy practice and at many times yields .. Read More»
  

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