Colonoscopy Techniques, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics
By Charles J. Lightdale, MD and Brian Saunders, MD
240 pp.,
Copyright 2005
Contents
1. How Sedation Affects the Technical Performance of Colonoscopy: From Unsedated to Propofol (Rex) 2. Aids to Insertion: Magnetic Imaging, Variable Stiffness and Overtubes (Saunders) 3. Practical Uses of Chromoendoscopy and Magnification at Colonoscopy (Hurlstone) 4. New Imaging Techniques at Colonoscopy: Tissue Spectroscopy and Narrow Band Imaging (Fockens) 5. New Imaging Techniques at Colonoscopy: Confocal Laser Colonoscopy (Kiesslich) 6. Virtual Colonoscopy: State of the Art and Future Directions by CT (Halligan) 7. Virtual Colonoscopy: State of the Art and Future Directions by MRI (Lauenstein) 8. Advanced Polypectomy in the Colon (Waye) 9. Treatment of Early, Flat Cancer of the Colon by Endoscopy (Kudo) 10. Colonic Stenting: Technique, Technology and Outcomes for Malignant and Benign Disease (Baron) 11. The Nurse Colonoscopist: Training and Quality Assurance (Vance) 12. Colonoscopy Training and Performance Assessment (Thomas-Gibson) 13. Colonoscopy: New Designs for the Future (Swain)