Although this type of examination is performed with the utmost care and is becoming less uncomfortable, it is still considered potentially painful and embarrassing due to its undeniably invasive nature. A colonoscope, a flexible tube equipped with a microcamera, is manually inserted into the anal canal.
Medicine has continued to make significant progress in this area. Regarding colonoscopy, a major innovation has recently emerged: virtual colonoscopy. Let’s see what it involves. Virtual colonoscopy is a non-invasive radiological technique that allows visualization of the colon wall without an endoscope. It makes the examination much less invasive than a traditional colonoscopy, while providing much more accurate results.
New method: colonoscopy will no longer be an invasive examination. (1/2)