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Can colonoscopy help with faecal impaction or chronic constipation which someone has suffered for years ?
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Help diagnose: The prep for the scoping procedure will help clean you out, but the scoping procedure itself is more done for diagnostic purposes, best wishes.
Answered 3/25/2014
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