Sigmoidoscopy
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In medicine, sigmoidoscopy is "endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the sigmoid flexure."[1]
Sigmoidoscopy may help in the mass screening of colorectal cancer.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Anonymous (2024), Sigmoidoscopy (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Ransohoff DF, Lang CA (March 1993). "Sigmoidoscopic screening in the 1990s". JAMA 269 (10): 1278–81. PMID 8437306. [e]
- ↑ Selby JV, Friedman GD, Quesenberry CP, Weiss NS (March 1992). "A case-control study of screening sigmoidoscopy and mortality from colorectal cancer". N. Engl. J. Med. 326 (10): 653–7. PMID 1736103. [e]