Sunday, January 28, 2007

Rectal polypectomy


Patient who underwent a virtual colonoscopy exam:
a 1.2 cm flat polyp was found in the rectum, top left image
shows the native CT scan axial image, the two images
bottom row are the 3D virtual colon reconstruction,
red arrow: polyp, blue arrow: rectal catheter
Top row: conventional endoscopy, images obtained before
and after polypectomy (red arrow) blue arrow: endoscope.
Images obtained with VOXAR COLONSCREEN software.