Subjects older than 60 years with negative findings on siomoidoscopy should still undergo colonoscopy

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 45, 2002, Pages 668-671

  Yoshinaga, Masahiro ^a   Watabe, Rie ^a   Takeda, Hiroko ^a   Yanagisawa, Jiroo ^a   Higuchi, Kazumi ^a   Tsuda, Ysuo ^a   Harada, Naohiko ^a   Nawata, Hajime ^a   Ikeda, Keiichi ^a  

^a Fukuoka Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Colonoscopy; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON ADENOMA; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADENOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED;

ADENOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OCCULT BLOOD; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036016659     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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