Compared with sigmoidoscopy, screening colonoscopy allows clinicians to examine more of the colon and, therefore, to miss fewer colonic neoplasms; however, colonoscopy is more invasive and more ...

A flexible sigmoidoscopy is a less invasive test than a colonoscopy that only looks at the lower part of the colon. It’s ...

During flexible sigmoidoscopy small polyps (<1 cm) were removed and sent for histopathological analysis. Patients were sent for colonoscopy for the presence of any polyp ≥1 cm, ≥3 adenomas ...

and curative colonoscopy remain unclear in this evaluation. Also, current results of large randomized, controlled clinical trials on flexible sigmoidoscopy in the United Kingdom and Norway have ...