flexible sigmoidoscopy with cautery

Indications

• lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage
  • diverticulosis*
  • angiodysplasia
  • colorectal carcinoma
  • colonic polyps
  • inflammatory bowel disease
    • Crohn's disease
    • ulcerative colitis
  • ischemic colitis (mesenteric ischemia)*

More general terms

• flexible sigmoidoscopy