Difficult or incomplete flexible sigmoidoscopy: Implications for a screening programme

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-21

  Stewart, Bruce T ^a   Keck, James O ^a,b   Duncan, Anne V ^a   Santamaria, Nicholas M ^a   Allen, Philip ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bowel; Cancer; Colorectal cancer; Polyp; Screening; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; RECTUM POLYP; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0032948753     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.1999.01499.x     Document Type: Article

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