This prospective study was conducted between August 2004 and June 2005 in Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital. Asymptomatic patients admitted to our physical check-up department were included ...

A completed colonoscopy was defined as visualization of the appendiceal orifice or ileocecal valve with photographic documentation, unless a large lesion or mass prohibited completion.

Colonoscopy revealed severe inflammation with deep ulcerations in the right side of the colon, extending from the area 1 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve to the hepatic flexure.

Cecal intubation is defined by the ASGE as the “passage of the colonoscope tip to a point proximal to the ileocecal valve so that the entire cecal caput, including the medial wall of the cecum between ...

We saw mucosal thickening at the ileocecal junction. We gave the patient piperacillin–tazobactam (3.375 g intravenously, every 6 h) for presumed intra-abdominal infection. Subsequent colonoscopy ...