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ven if your docs are practicing the
foundations of a good colonoscopy
— ensuring patients have good
preps, reaching the end of the colon
and performing a careful and thor-
Improved optics and mechanical
innovations are revolutionizing
colonoscopy screenings.
Seth A. Gross, MD, FACG, FASGE
New York, N.Y.
Colon Cancer
z THE FUTURE New devices are promising
better views, letting doctors catch more hard-to-
see polyps, says Seth Gross, MD, FACG, FASGE.
ough inspection —
missed polyps are still a
possibility. The reported
polyp miss rate is
between 12% and 24%
because of blind spots
and deep folds in the
colon. Fortunately, new
technology and devices
designed to give your
physicians the best
views possible let us
catch more polyps.
Panoramic views
When it comes to the lat-
est technology, I've
found that the newest
enhancements fall into 2
areas: improved optics
and smoothing mechani-
cal innovations. The
approaches differ, but
they all attempt to tackle
the same goal — better
visualization of the entire
colon surface.
• Optics upgrades. One of
the ways manufacturers
