PMID: 9638495Jun 25, 1998Paper

The appropriate use of colonoscopy in the curative management of colorectal cancer

International Journal of Colorectal Disease
A BarrierM Huguier

Abstract

A total of 175 patients who underwent a curative resection for a colonic (n = 130) or a rectal cancer (n = 45) between 1986 and 1992 were entered into a routine colonoscopy program. Colonoscopies were performed 1 year after the operation, and then at 2-year intervals. The findings at colonoscopy, as well as those of preoperative colonoscopy (when performed), were recorded. Eleven anastomotic recurrences were diagnosed at an asymptomatic stage, at a mean follow-up of 14 months. All of them were identified in patients with a stage B or C primary rectosigmoid cancer. Eight patients underwent another potentially curative re-operation. Only perioperative colonoscopy (preoperative colonoscopy; first postoperative colonoscopy in patients for whom the preoperative procedure was incomplete or not performed) allowed diagnosis of second cancers (n = 7) and adenomatous polyps greater than 10 mm (n = 17). Further colonoscopies detected only polyps less than 10 mm. Positive examination rates for successive follow-up colonoscopies were 15, 20 and 23%, respectively; they were significantly higher in patients who had previously had adenomatous polyps than in patients who had not: 30% versus 6% (P < 0.025), 46% vs 5% (P < 0.005) and 38% vs 11% (...Continue Reading

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Jun 5, 2003·Colorectal Disease : the Official Journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland·M R McFallW F A Miles
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