Why is colonoscopy more difficult in women?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 43, Issue 2 PART 1, 1996, Pages 124-126

  Saunders, Brian P ^a   Fukumoto, Manabu ^a   Halligan, Steve ^a   Jobling, Craig ^a   Moussa, Mohammed E ^a   Bartram, Clive I ^a   Williams, Christopher B ^a  

^a Centre for Telecommunications Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGACOLON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030022125     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(06)80113-6     Document Type: Article

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