Abstract
“Cleansing enemas are unglamorous and almost surely the most misunderstood and improperly performed procedure in clinical medicine”. These words by Miller [1] point out quite rightly how little attention was paid in the past to the scientific and pragmatic rationale on which this so frequent and important clinical act is based. In fact, when given by inexperienced personnel, five enemas are required on average for a thorough cleansing of the colon [2].
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Cittadini, G. (1998). Is the cleansing enema a necessary ritual?. In: Double contrast barium enema. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2217-1_9
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