The sigmoidoscope is lubricated and inserted with obturator in general direction of the navel.
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Inability to negotiate sigmoidoscope or a flatus tube.
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The tube is called a sigmoidoscope.
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The sigmoidoscope can be further advanced into the lower intestinal tract and requires an endoscopic set-up.
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Lateral movements of the sigmoidoscope's tip negotiate the Houston valve and the recto-sigmoid junction.
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A small hospital-the Camogli Hospital-which has ultrasound, X-ray facilities a gastroscope, but no sigmoidoscope.
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This time, Rohan said, the doctor examined him more closely, with a sigmoidoscope, and sent him to a gastroenterologist.
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The sigmoidoscope, thought mistakenly to have been invented by the Marquis de Sade, is truly nowhere as uncomfortable as a trip to your local physical therapist.
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Using fiber-optic instruments called colonoscopes and sigmoidoscopes, they can look at the interior of a patient's colon to spot tiny growths, called polyps, which can be removed before they turn cancerous.
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The old rigid proctoscopes have been replaced by a more comfortable instrument called a flexible sigmoidoscope, which allows the doctor to directly view the bottom third of the bowel, where about 40 percent of colorectal cancers arise.