Digital Rectal Exam
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What do Abnormal Results Mean?
If a patient is currently bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, this warrants emergency care, and the patient should be evaluated in the emergency department for a gastrointestinal hemorrhage. If occult blood is revealed but the patient does not appear to be hemorrhaging, the patients will generally undergo blood tests for anemia, followed by colonoscopy. If a male patient has an enlarged or nodular prostate, he will undergo a serum test of prostate specific antigen, and then possibly prostate ultrasound and biopsy after referral to a urologist.
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