Orianne Planade, Brigitte Dessomme, Nicolas Chapelle, Marine Verdier, Emilie Duchalais, Lucille Queneherve, Marc Le Rhun, Emmanuel Coron, Jean-Francois Mosnier, Tamara Matysiak-Budnik, Yann Touchefeu
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The French colorectal cancer screening program is based on a fecal immunochemical test, followed by colonoscopy in case of positivity. The benefit of adding a concomitant upper endoscopy to detect upper digestive lesions (precancerous or others) is still debated. Our aim was to evaluate the frequency of upper digestive lesions detected by upper endoscopy performed concomitantly with colonoscopy following a positive fecal immunochemical test, and their impact on the patients' management (i...
March 11, 2021: Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology