Is gastroscopy for fecal immunochemical test positive patients worthwhile?

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• 作者：Jing Yu Ng ; Dedrick Kok Hong Chan…
• 关键词：Fecal immunochemical test ; Gastroscopy ; Oesophago ; gastro ; duodenoscopy
• 刊名：International Journal of Colorectal Disease
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：32
• 期：1
• 页码：95-98
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Surgery; Internal Medicine; Gastroenterology; Hepatology; Proctology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1262
• 卷排序：32

文摘

BackgroundThe use of fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in the screening for colorectal cancer is long established. However, more than 50 % of patients with positive FITs have a negative colonoscopy. The role of a subsequent oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) is debatable. The aim of this study is to evaluate the yield of OGD in patients with positive FITs.