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Image-enhanced and magnifying endoscopy are described as improving characterization of tumor features.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},385681,1790701812,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",{"doc_id":79,"user_id":84,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":85,"doc_module":4,"category_id":86,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":87,"file_id":88,"file_url":89,"file_type":90,"file_size":91,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":92,"language":93,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":94,"faqs":95,"seo_title":96,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":97,"read_time":98},2336464648322,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/2200025388227c56fec?_k=1778556882303663488",7,"diagnostics  \nReview  \nA Review of Colonoscopy in Intestinal Diseases Seung Min Hong  and Dong Hoon Baek *  \nCitation: Hong, S.M.; Baek, D.H. AReview of Colonoscopy in Intestinal Diseases. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 1262 . [https://doi.org/10.3390/](https://doi.org/10.3390/)[ ](https://doi.org/10.3390/)diagnostics13071262  \nAcademic Editor: Ervin Toth  \nReceived: 1 March 2023  \nRevised: 25 March 2023  \nAccepted: 26 March 2023  \nPublished: 27 March 2023  \nCopyright: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ([https://](https://)[ ](https://)[creativecommons.org/licenses/by/](creativecommons.org/licenses/by/)[ ](creativecommons.org/licenses/by/)[4.0/](4.0/)) .  \nDepartment of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan 49421, Republic of Korea  \n* Correspondence: [dhbeak77@gmail.com](dhbeak77@gmail.com); Tel.: +82-51-2448180  \nAbstract: Since the development of the fiberoptic colonoscope in the late 1960s, colonoscopy has been a useful tool to diagnose and treat various intestinal diseases. This article reviews the clinical use of colonoscopy for various intestinal diseases based on present and future perspectives. Intestinal diseases include infectious diseases, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), neoplasms, functional bowel disorders, and others. In cases of infectious diseases, colonoscopy is helpful in making the differential diagnosis, revealing endoscopic gross findings, and obtaining the specimens for pathology. Additionally, colonoscopy provides clues for distinguishing between infectious disease and IBD, and aids in the post-treatment monitoring of IBD. Colonoscopy is essential for the diagnosis of neoplasms that are diagnosed through only pathological confirmation. At present, malignant tumors are commonly being treated using endoscopy because of the advancement of endoscopic resection procedures. Moreover, the characteristics of tumors can be described in more detail by image-enhanced endoscopy and magnifying endoscopy. Colonoscopy can be helpful for the endoscopic decompression of colonicvolvulus in large bowel obstruction, balloon dilatation as a treatment for benign stricture, and colonstenting as a treatment for malignant obstruction. In the diagnosis of functional bowel disorder, colonoscopy is used to investigate other organic causes of the symptom.  \nKeywords: colonoscopy; intestinal diseases; review  \n1. Introduction  \nColonoscopy is an examination of the colorectum and terminal ileum undertaken by inserting a scope with a camera device and flexible light source through the anus. Since colonoscopy was first performed in the 1960s [1], it has been used as a key diagnostic and therapeutic tool for various intestinal diseases. There are many types of intestinal diseases, and they can be classified into infectious disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), neoplasm, functional bowel disorder, bleeding, and others. Colonoscopy can visualize lesions associated with these diseases and find inflammation, ulcers, neoplasms, and hemorrhages. In addition, it provides information on macroscopic findings and enables tissue sampling by inserting instruments through various channels [2] . Moreover, because of the development of endoscopic resection techniques such as endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic resection is used asthe main treatment for early colorectal cancer [3] . Colonoscopy also plays an important role in large bowel obstruction (LBO) . Colonoscopy not only enables the diagnosis of various diseases of LBO, but it is also useful as a treatment for balloon dilatation in benign stricture and metal stent insertion in malignant obstruction [4] . Additionally, when gastrointestinal bleeding occurs, endoscopic hemostasis is performed through end","cbCairgqy5ZaVB13","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairgqy5ZaVB13","pdf",441568,26,"English","# Introduction\n# Colonoscopy in Intestinal Diseases\n## Infectious Diseases\n## Inflammatory Bowel Disease\n## Neoplasms\n## Functional Bowel Disorders\n## Large Bowel Obstruction and GI Bleeding","[{\"question\":\"What intestinal diseases does colonoscopy help diagnose in this review?\",\"answer\":\"The review covers infectious diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, neoplasms, functional bowel disorders, and additional intestinal conditions. 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