Abstract Medical personnel usually write and design documents that inform physicians or patients about procedures therapies. Document design, however, requires skills are not normally applied, resulting in information is often used properly. This article describes a project developed by the Alberta Colorectal Cancer Screening Program. The goal was to help better prepare for their colonoscopies....

Virtual colonoscopy is a non-invasive technique for the detection of polyps. Currently, a clean colon is required; as without cleansing the colonic wall cannot be segmented. Enhanced bowel preparation schemes opacify intraluminal remains to enable colon segmentation. Computed cleansing (as opposed to physical cleansing of the bowels) allows removal of tagged intraluminal remains. This paper des...

Authors L. Manikandan, Rajan Kumar T, Prathapan V.K, M.P. Sasi Department of General Surgery & Department of Surgical Gastroenterology Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India Corresponding Author L. Manikandan Department of General Surgery, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, India 673008 Email: [email protected], Phone: +918129335454 ABSTRACT Mechanical bowel cleansing i...

There is evidence that a history of colorectal cancer in a first-degree relative is associated with an elevated individual’s lifetime risk of colorectal cancer. It is believed that while genetic factors may determine the individual susceptibility for colon cancer, environmental factors such as diet or other lifestyle factors define which genetically susceptible individuals will ultimately devel...

AIMS We evaluated the effect of modified Davidson's fixative (mDF) on the number of lymph nodes examined and staging in patients with colon carcinoma. METHODS The results of two different fixation methods used in the pathological preparation of the resection specimens were analyzed. A traditional formalin preparation with manual dissection of all nodes was performed in 117 colon specimens bet...

The gut microbiome of animals is emerging as an important factor influencing ecological and evolutionary processes. A major bottleneck in obtaining microbiome data from large numbers of samples is the time-consuming laboratory procedures required, specifically the isolation of DNA and generation of amplicon libraries. Recently, direct PCR kits have been developed that circumvent conventional DN...

1. The aim of the investigation was to determine whether the adrenoceptors of the chick rectum preparation complied with Ahlquist's classification; phentolamine (0.1 mug/ml) and propranolol (0.05 mug/ml) were used as specific antagonists of alpha- and beta-adrenoceptors, respectively.2. Propranolol antagonized phenylephrine, isoprenaline and noradrenaline in the chick rectum preparation, althou...