Colonoscopy

Question 1

def

Answer 1

a flexible fibre-optic instrument is inserted into the anus to examine the colon

Question 2

indications

Answer 2

1 lower GI bleeding
2 monitoring of colorectal polyps & cancers
3 diarrhoea
4 therapeutic indications
-removal of lesions
-colonic decompression
-foreign body removal
5 miscellaneous indications
-unexplained abdomen pain
-chronic constipation

Question 3

complications

Answer 3

1 perforation
2 side effects of sedative
3 bleeding (from site of biopsy, removal of polyp etc)