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My mum has irritable bowel syndrome and a fissure. she is going for a flexible sigmoidoscopy. is this safe?
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Sigmoidoscope: Scope is done quite frequently, and under hands of good gastroenterologist, complications are minimal.
Answered 7/23/2012
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