[Colonoscopy in children].
Until now colonoscopies have rarely been carried out in children on contrary to adults. Within two years we have submitted to this method, more than 80 patients between the first and 19th year of their lives, previously those ones who were in preschool- and school-age. The main indication for the endoscopy were bloody stools and mild inconstant abdominal pain. In most of the children we found different degrees and extents of an inflammatory process of the colon. The histological diagnosis was in 38 patients an unspecific chronic colitis, in 2 cases a solitary polyp, and only once a hemangioma. Despite of the colitis, nearly all children were in a relatively good physical condition. We think that the unknown and untreated colitis in children is very dangerous for them with regard to the develop of colon-carcinoma in their later lives.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003113:Colonoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant
Koloskopie im Kindesalter.