Welcome text offering a complete and practical guide to performing virtual colonoscopy examinations and interpreting the results.

Provides precise instructions on how to prepare the patient and specific protocols for the various CT scanners currently in use. Detailed chapters on interpretation demonstrate normal anatomy, anatomic variants, CT appearances of polyps and cancer, and pitfalls of interpretation on two-dimensional and three-dimensional views. Additional chapters cover extracolonic findings, reporting, and fecal and fluid tagging. Well illustrated with access to online support.

Contents

• Colon Cancer Screening

• Examination Prerequisites

• Optimizing CT Technique

• Interpretation: Normal Anatomy

• Interpretation: Polyps and Cancer

• Pitfalls

• Accuracy

• Extracolonic Findings

• Reporting

• Fecal and Fluid Tagging

• Computer Aided Detection