In a message dated 3/2/2005 2:01:35 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
ckotting@wideopenwest.com writes:
If you're looking at the lower colon, it's a sygmoidoscopy (since it looks
only at the sygmoid portion of the colon). The preferred procedure now is a
colonoscopy, which covers the entire colon.
I may be wrong, but I think our Dr. can do the former in his office, with a
scope sort of gismo, but the latter, the one I had, requires a visit to the
endoscopy center, and is done with the buttcam.
Robert B. Houston
Santa Teresa, NM
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... Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of
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worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW-- What a Ride!"
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