Virtual Colonoscopy Without Laxative Equals Standard OC in Identifying Clinically Significant Polyps, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Massachusetts General Hospital Study

Computed tomographic colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, administered without laxatives is as accurate as conventional colonoscopy in detecting clinically significant, potentially cancerous polyps, according to a study performed jointly at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, the University of California, San Francisco and Massachusetts General Hospital.