[Testing the procedure for virtual colonoscopy and its possible place in the algorithm of study of colonic diseases].

The paper presents the experience in testing virtual colonoscopy on examining patients with colonic diseases. The potentialities of virtual colonoscopy in imaging tumors, polyps, diverticula, and strictures of the colon are assessed. The place of the procedure in the algorithms of examination of patients is defined. Its advantages and disadvantages are preliminarily estimated.