Smile!
Colonoscopy is the examination of the whole length colon from the junction between the small and large intestines down to the anus. Besides the pretty sight of the waving villi in the end of the small intestines that greet the endoscopist at the completion of colonoscopy, there another structure that the endoscopist looks for….
The SMILE of the appendix’s base.
The appendix is attached to the beginning of the colon (called the caecum) and when you look at it from the inside of the colon, the base is all you see. As the picture above.
Just to give you a view of the appendix from outside the colon…
Laparoscopic view of the appendix
