Researchers assessed 1,700 optical colonoscopy examinations and 1,307 CT colonography examinations and found 23.2 percent of patients in the optical colonoscopy group had at least one adenoma removed, while 5.9 percent of patients in the CT colonography group had at least one adenoma removed. Optical colonoscopy also resulted in significantly higher detection of adenomas than CT colonography. However, the number of advanced lesions detected between the two groups was not significant.
Researchers conclude than an optical colonoscopy program is significantly more effective at detected non-advanced adenomas, with the primary difference between the two modalities being recovery and management of subcentimeter adenomas.
Read the article about optical colonoscopy and CT colonography.
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