Thursday, June 3, 2010

Diagnose Your Colon: Colonoscopy


One of the methods to diagnose the colon is colonoscopy. It is the most accurate method, but it is also the most expensive one. Please consult you doctor for this therapy.


Colonosocpy is a medical term consists of 2 words: colono means colon or large intestine. Scopy is ‘look into’. So colonoscopy is a method that the expert can observe the condition of bowel from the inside. This method uses a tool called colonoscope: it is a long 1 cm diameter flexible pipe with a camera at the end of the pipe. It is connected to the TV monitor. This is the illustration how the colonoscope works:


Below are the photographs of colonoscopy result:


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