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Comparative Study
. 1981 Dec 12;283(6306):1583-6.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6306.1583.

An evaluation of flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy

K D Vellacott, J D Hardcastle
Comparative Study

An evaluation of flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy

K D Vellacott et al. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). .

Abstract

Results of 350 flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy examinations showed a diagnostic yield of 30% compared with 6.5% by rigid sigmoidoscopy of the same patients. The mean time for the examinations was eight minutes, a distance of over 50 cm being visualised in 65% of the patients. Preparation of the bowel with a single phosphate enema was adequate in 95% of the patients. As an outpatient investigation for clinicians fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy is a safe, quick, and useful addition to rigid sigmoidoscopy and should result in a decrease in the number of barium enema examinations required.

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