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Pentax RetroView
Polyps hide, RetroView
seeks, says Pentax Medical,
the manufacturer of this
innovative scope, which has
a 25% smaller retroflex
radius and 210-degree angu-
lation, making it easier to
maneuver and easier to spot
polyps behind folds in the
colon.
"It's remarkably easy to turn around, especially in the end of the
colon," says Luis Lara, MD, medical director of the Pancreas Disease
Clinic Department of Gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic in
Weston, Fla. "And everybody in our practice felt there was really no
learning curve."
The maneuverability was a huge advantage in a recent case, says Dr.
Lara. "We had a patient who'd had 3 failed colonoscopies. She had a
very redundant sigmoid with diverticulosis and diverticular strictures,
and a CT scan showed that she possibly had a lesion, so it was imper-
ative that we try to do a colonoscopy and see what was going on."
The RetroView, he says, succeeded where other scopes had failed:
"It was amazing. I could see where the area of sigmoid narrowing
was. I could also appreciate that if I had not had the extreme angula-
tion together with the thinner lumen toward the end, it would have
been extremely difficult to get through it. We ended up saving this
lady from having to have unnecessary surgery."
G I V I S U A L I Z A T I O N
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