An air contrast barium enema is a test for your colon. These days, doctors don’t use it as often to look for colorectal cancer. Instead, it’s more common to get a colonoscopy, which can find smaller ...

What Is a Barium Enema? A Barium enema is an examination of your lower gastrointestinal tract (your doctor may call it your lower GI tract) using X-rays. It’s also known as a colon X-ray. X-rays show ...

To the Editor: The Clinical Practice article by Inadomi (Jan. 12 issue) 1 did not mention the potential role of double-contrast barium enema. Double-contrast barium enema, sometimes referred to as air ...

What is Double-contrast Barium Enema? Double-contrast barium enema is a radiological technique that can be used to screen individuals for colorectal cancer. It is preferred in individuals who cannot ...

Barium enema is a diagnostic procedure used to obtain a clear image of the colon. Since x-rays are not able to penetrate through liquid barium metal, it is used as a chalk lining to obtain a clear ...

An enema is a technique used to stimulate stool evacuation, usually to relieve constipation. How it’s done depends on the type of enema and whether you can do it at home or at the hospital. The enema ...

Barium enema is a kind of ad hoc procedure to a regular x-ray, in order to get a clear image of the large intestine. X-rays are unable to penetrate the metal barium. Hence, a thick white liquid ...

A barium enema, in principle, is similar to a barium meal or barium follow-through but is used specifically to obtain X-ray images of the large intestine. Unlike the barium meal and follow through ...