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To the Editor: Chui et al. (Dec. 22 issue)¹ found that hydrocolonic ultrasonography was less useful than colonoscopy for detecting colorectal polyps and cancers. Although their data may well be accurate, their conclusions contradict not only my experience^2,3 but the findings of other, similar studies.^{4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11}

Chui et al. studied 52 patients. Most of the patients with polyps had only small polyps. I have also found that hydrocolonic ultrasonography has a low sensitivity for detecting polyps less than 7 mm in diameter. The failure to detect such small polyps is not of great clinical importance, however, since colorectal cancer is no . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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