Lower Acute GIT bleeding PR must precede colonoscopy Preparation Small intestine (10%, blind) Colon ( Angiodysplasia , Diverticulosis ) Angiography CT angiography Others No barium
Intra-Operative Endoscopy
Obstruction Limitations and complications Stenting tumours up to sigmoid Untwisting volvulus
Polyps Snaring Preservation of rectum in total colectomy
Infammatory bowel disease Follow-up (complications) Deompression in acute dilatation
Tumours Distance from anal verge Associated polyps (Extent of resection / polypectopy ) Synchronous tumours Anastomotic recurrence / stricturing Tumour / Anastomotic bleeding Before reversal of H artmann’s procedure Differentiation from other diseases
F istula Recto vaginal fistula: Mass, from which? Biopsies Not very useful for colovesical
Foreign body extraction Ablation of angiodysplasia Pre-operative marking NOTES
Do not do colonoscopy Colonic perforation / leakage Secondary peritonitis Most cases of obstruction
Do colonoscopy without colonic symptoms Familial polyposis Inguinal hernia for first time in the elderly Iron deficiency anemia with no apparent cause Hepatic focal lesion indefinitely hepatoma