Enteroscopy is an important means of diagnosis and treatment for diseases of the small intestine, colon and rectum, and it is especially suitable for the presence of relevant clinical manifestations, other auxiliary tests suggesting intestinal pathology, previous intestinal diseases or a clear family history.
1. The presence of clinical manifestations: for example, frequent abdominal pain, diarrhea or constipation, mucopurulent blood stools or bloody stools, irregular stools and other lower gastrointestinal symptoms and people who visit the clinic can clearly diagnose the cause of the symptoms through colonoscopy.
2. Other auxiliary tests suggesting intestinal pathology: if intestinal pathology is suspected by other imaging tests such as abdominal CT, MRI, barium enema, enteroscopy is needed to further clarify the cause of intestinal pathology and to do pathologic examination.
3. Previous history of intestinal diseases or family history: if there are polyps, early postoperative intestinal tumors, etc., those who need follow-up review colonoscopy. As well as the census of colon tumors, those who have serious colon lesions in the family are also recommended to have at least one colonoscopy at the age of 40 or before.
4. Unexplained low intestinal obstruction, intestinal torsion, intussusception reset.
5. Abdominal masses, especially in the lower abdomen, who need to be clearly diagnosed.
Enteroscopy is a commonly used examination method in gastroenterology, which can visually see and observe whether there is congestion, polyps, tumors, etc. in the intestinal tract, and at the same time, it can find lesions that can be sampled for pathological examination, and it can accurately diagnose intestinal diseases.