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Article: Reliability of virtual colonoscopy questioned [Corrected 04/21/04]
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2004
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Reliability of virtual colonoscopy questioned
Accuracy of cancer-detection procedure varies widely, study finds
By LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Chicago -- Virtual colonoscopy -- a cancer-detecting procedure
that gives doctors a computer-generated 3-D view of the colon -- is
less reliable than previously thought and not ready for widespread
use, researchers say.
Its accuracy varies considerably, depending on the training and
methods of the doctors performing it, according to a study of 600
patients at nine major clinics.
In conventional colonoscopy, a long, flexible viewing tube about
the thickness of a garden hose is inserted in the rectum and threaded
several ...