PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Long, Howard F.
TI  - Sensitive Sigmoidoscopy: A Straight Sigmoid Technique
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2.2.103
DP  - 1989 Apr 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Practice
PG  - 103--105
VI  - 2
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/2/2/103.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/2/2/103.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med1989 Apr 01; 2
AB  - Colorectal cancer prevention requires screening more sensitive than standard colonoscopy in cost, convenience, comfort, and safety, and it requires screening more sensitive epidemiologically than occult blood, radiography, or standard sigmoidoscopy to detect small polyps throughout the colon. Using a 65-cm videosigmoidoscope and no sedation, this family doctor reached the ascending colon (95 percent of polyps) in 81 percent of 78 private practice patients not having prior intraperitoneal surgery (compared with 57 percent of 35 patients with abdominal surgery), mostly by gentle scope rotation for many minutes at 12-20 cm insertion to gather folds and keep the sigmoid colon straight.