The role of endoscopy in the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is well established. However, recent data have shown significant limitations in the effectiveness of colonoscopy in…
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and dysplasia have pathologic characteristics and risks different from those of patients with sporadic carcinomas. Therefore, surgical interventions need to be more aggressive than…
Surveillance colonoscopy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with colonic involvement is recommended by multiple national and international gastrointestinal societies. Recommendations differ on the timing of initial screening colonoscopy,…
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease may develop dysplasia in the cryptal epithelium, polypoid neoplasias, and nonpolypoid (flat) adenomas, lesions at risk to proceed to colorectal carcinoma. The onset of invasion…
Much of the flat or biopsy-only detected dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that had historically warranted a colectomy can now be shown to be circumscribed lesions with dye-spray or…
Endomicroscopy is a new imaging tool for gastrointestinal endoscopy. In vivo histology becomes possible at subcellular resolution during ongoing colonoscopy. Panchromoendoscopy with targeted biopsies has become the method of choice for…
Enhanced surveillance colonoscopy techniques for dysplasia detection in ulcerative colitis have successfully been implemented into group and solo practices. Chromoendoscopy (CE), in particular, has been shown to significantly increase dysplasia…
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have a high risk of colitis-associated dysplasia and cancer. It is important that careful surveillance with colonoscopy is performed for all patients with IBD…
Cancer risk in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) involving the colon is high and increases with time. The quality and efficacy of colonoscopic surveillance is variable. Chromoendoscopy with targeted…
Colonoscopy is routinely performed in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) for surveillance of dysplasia. Thorough bowel preparation is necessary to facilitate lesion detection. Patients with IBD do not have…
