Screening colonoscopy in asymptomatic average-risk persons with negative fecal occult blood tests

Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 64-67

  Rex, Douglas K ^a   Lehman, Glen A ^b   Hawes, Robert H ^b   Ulbright, Thomas M ^b   Smith, Jennifer J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGE; OCCULT BLOOD; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0025961550     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(91)90583-7     Document Type: Article

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