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Hemoccult screening in selected patients the hernia patient older than age fifty years

✍ Scribed by Don M. Morris; Paul B. Daron; Leonard I. Goldman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
742 KB
Volume
51
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

Two hundred and forty patients, asymptomatic relative to gastrointestinal disease, who applied for elective hernia repair, were tested as outpatients for occult blood in the stool. Thirty-eight patients had one or more positive specimens. Significant pathologic characteristics were identified by lower gas- trointestinal evaluation in 23 of these patients. One patient had an adenocarcinoma (Dukes' Stage B). Eight patients had polyps of various types, 11 patients had colonic diverticula, and three patients had anorectal disease. Patient compliance was excellent and the cost-benefit ratio appeared to be acceptable.

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