Comprehensive study between conventional colonoscopy and virtual CT colonography in assessment of colonic disorders

Abstract

Background: Colonic and extracolonic staging is critical in colorectal cancer patients and can be assessed with Conventional Colonoscopy (CC), which is accepted as the gold standard for evaluating the colon; however, there is data that indicates that colonoscope localization of cancer is frequently imprecise and depends on distances may be misguiding. Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC), on the other hand