Screening colonoscopy: The cost of common sense

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 9017, 1996, Pages 1744-1745

  Bhattacharya, Ishan ^a   Sack, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029992364     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90812-0     Document Type: Article

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