title: [Fibrosigmoidoscopy as a screening method for colorectal neoplasms in a population of patients hospitalized in the internal medicine department].
abstract: Surgical treatment of an early enough diagnosed large bowel cancer is possible in the screening tests. Fibrosigmoidoscopy is a sensitive method of the neoplastic lesions' diagnostics in the distal large bowel and competes the tests for occult blood in stools. The aim of the study was the assessment of fibrosigmoidoscopy as a screening test in a hospitalized patients. 2405 hospitalized patients were analysed in 2 years. Fibrosigmoidoscopy was performed in 903. Polyps, mainly neoplastic were diagnosed in 115 patients and cancers in 4 cases. The percentage of the results in other countries. The acceptance of the method was high (86%). We suggest that fibrosigmoidoscopy should be performed as the screening test in the hospitalized population.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Gastroenterologii i Przemiany Materii CMKP.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tomecki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gogulski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cwikła
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pietrzak
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012812:Sigmoidoscopy / Q000379:methods*