Colon tumors and colonoscopy

Introduction

The Digestive Disease Week (DDW) meeting held in Los Angeles in 2006 featured many abstracts on diverse colonoscopy topics, including the ease of cecal intubation; the detection and importance of treatment of diminutive colorectal polyps; and the role of submucosal dissection, with or without ligation, for colonic tumors, especially rectal carcinoids. Many studies aimed to clarify the role of high-resolution colonoscopy compared with magnifying colonoscopy, and the importance of narrow-band imaging and autofluorescence imaging in the detection and management of colonic tumors was also explored.

References

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• 15 Subramanian S, Amint M G, Guelrud M. Endoscopic mucosal resection of non-protruding lesions in the cecum [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2006;  63 AB208
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• 17 Tanaka S, Oka S, Hirata M. et al . Qualitative diagnosis for colorectal neoplasia using narrow band imaging (NBI) magnification [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2006;  63 AB230
• 18 East J E, Suzuki N, Palmer N. et al . Auto fluorescence imaging (AFI) and narrow band imaging (NBI) with magnification in colonoscopy: an early experience [abstract].  Gastrointest Endosc. 2006;  63 AB230
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