The impact of poor bowel preparation on colonoscopy: a prospective single centre study of 10 571 colonoscopies

PO Hendry, JT Jenkins, RH Diament - Colorectal disease, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Colonoscopy is regarded as the most sensitive method of evaluating the colon.
Inadequate preparation reduces sensitivity and has adverse implications for individual …

Faecal haemoglobin concentration is related to severity of colorectal neoplasia

J Digby, CG Fraser, FA Carey, PJ McDonald… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - jcp.bmj.com
Aims Guaiac faecal occult blood tests are being replaced by faecal immunochemical tests
(FIT). We investigated whether faecal haemoglobin concentration (f-Hb) was related to stage …

Clinical outcomes using a faecal immunochemical test for haemoglobin as a first-line test in a national programme constrained by colonoscopy capacity

RJC Steele, PJ McDonald, J Digby… - United European …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction Because of their many advantages, faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) are
superseding traditional guaiac-based faecal occult blood tests in bowel screening …

[HTML][HTML] Positive lymph node retrieval ratio optimises patient staging in colorectal cancer

SJ Moug, JD Saldanha, JR McGregor… - British Journal of …, 2009 - nature.com
Alternative lymph node (LN) parameters have been proposed to improve staging in
colorectal cancer. This study compared these alternative parameters with conventional TNM …

Management of obstructing lesions of the left colon by resection, on-table lavage, and primary anastomosis

J Stewart, RH Diament, TG Brennan - Surgery, 1993 - surgjournal.com
Background. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and safety of single-
stage resection, on-table lavage, and primary anastomosis in patients presenting with …

Endoscopists' estimation of size should not determine surveillance of colonic polyps

SJ Moug, N Vernall, J Saldanha… - Colorectal …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Current British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines use adenomatous
polyp size as one of the key factors in determining polyp follow‐up. This study aimed to …

Mechanical bowel preparation does not influence outcomes following colonic cancer resection

GA Nicholson, IG Finlay, RH Diament… - Journal of British …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background Meta-analyses have indicated that preoperative mechanical bowel preparation
(MBP) confers no clear benefit and may indeed be harmful for patients with colorectal …

Faecal haemoglobin concentration is related to detection of advanced colorectal neoplasia in the next screening round

J Digby, CG Fraser, FA Carey… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective To examine associations between faecal haemoglobin concentrations below the
cut-off used in colorectal cancer screening and outcomes in the next screening round …

Comparison of positive lymph node ratio with an inflammation-based prognostic score in colorectal cancer

SJ Moug, G McColl, SM Lloyd, G Wilson… - Journal of British …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background Two prognostic scoring systems have been proposed in colorectal cancer: the
pathologically based positive lymph node ratio (pLNR) and the inflammation-based modified …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of lesion localisation at colonoscopy: outcomes from a multi-centre UK study

SJ Moug, S Fountas, MS Johnstone, AS Bryce… - Surgical …, 2017 - Springer
Background Colonoscopy is currently the gold standard for detection of colorectal lesions,
but may be limited in anatomically localising lesions. This audit aimed to determine the …