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Post-polyp detection, CRC risk ID'd by colonoscopy factors

(HealthDay) -- In the community setting, after colonoscopic polyp detection, colonoscopy-related factors such as incomplete polyp removal and lack of surveillance colonoscopies are more important than...

Colonoscopy Related Factors Associated with Increased Risk of Cancer

Incomplete polyp removal and failure to have a follow-up colonoscopy within five years after the detection of the first polyp are more strongly associated with an increased risk of developing colorect...

Colonoscopy Issues Predict Cancer Risk (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Incomplete polyp removal and failure to have a follow-up colonoscopy were more strongly associated with the risk for subsequent development of colorectal cancer than were polyp char...

Precancerous Polyp Detection Rates Increased By Split-Dose Preparation For Colonoscopy

A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic Arizona showed that system-wide implementation of a split-dose preparation as the primary choice for colonoscopy significantly improved both polyp detec...

Split-dose preparation for colonoscopy increases precancerous polyp detection rates

(American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic Arizona showed that system-wide implementation of a split-dose preparation as the primary choice for c...

[Clinical Picture] Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: capsule endoscopy to stage disease

A 13-year-old girl with recurrent abdominal pain and rectal bleeding was referred to our department. Her 36-year-old father had been diagnosed with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) after previous surgical...

Kidney stone sufferers 'double in a generation'

Stones in the kidney and ureter now affect almost one person in ten in Europe, the European Association of Urology has just confirmed. This figure has more than doubled since 1982, with urologists att...

Colon Polyp Surveillance: Need-to-Know Changes

Important changes in the new 2012 postpolypectomy surveillance guidelines are reviewed. Medscape Gastroenterology

Retroperitoneoscopic treatment of ureteral invagination caused by a long fibroepithelial polyp protruding into the bladder: Report of a case.

We describe how we performed retroperitoneoscopic surgery for a 15.5-cm fibroepithelial polyp, which originated in the lowest portion of the right upper ureter, protruded intermittently into the bladd...

Giant fibroepithelial polyp of the ureter: treatment with ureteral resection and intestinal substitution.

Tissue engineering and ureter regeneration: 
Is it possible.

Large ureter damages are difficult to reconstruct. Current techniques are complicated, difficult to perform, and often associated with failures. The ureter has never been regenerated thus far. Therefo...

Bilateral ureteral polyps in children: a case report.

Fibroepithelial polyp of the ureter is a benign tumor of mesodermal origin that rarely occurs in children. The most common presenting symptoms are hematuria and flank pain by obstruction of the urinar...

Identification of the narrow lumen of the ureter using a Fogarty catheter during laparoscopic pyeloplasty.

It is difficult to identify the narrow sites of the ureter from the outside while carrying out laparoscopic pyeloplasty in patients with ureteropelvic junction obstruction. We developed and named a ne...