Agreement Between Rectosigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy Analyses of Disease Activity and Healing in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Jean-Frédéric Colombel, Ingrid Ordás, Thomas Ullman, Paul Rutgeerts, Akiko Chai, Sharon O’Byrne, Timothy T. Lu, Julián Panés

Endoscopy limited to the rectosigmoid colon is the standard technique used to measure endoscopic healing in ulcerative colitis (UC) clinical trials. We evaluated whether rectosigmoidoscopy adequately measures UC activity in the more proximal colon.

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