Abstract:Bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract represents relatively common diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in clinical work of gastroenterologists and surgeons. Bleeding from the lower GI (LGIB) is mostly caused by pathologic conditions of the colon, although the source of bleeding cannot always be exactly localized, thus rendering optimal and prompt therapy difficult. During two year period, at IlI department of the First Surgical Clinic in Belgrade, we performed 424 colonoscopies for LGIB. According to our r… Show more
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