Colonoscopic miss rates determined by direct comparison of colonoscopy with colon resection specimens

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3182-3185

  Postic, Georges ^a,b   Lewin, David ^a,b   Bickerstaff, Charles ^a,b   Wallace, Michael B ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b McClennan Banks Gastrointest Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036895017     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(02)05545-4     Document Type: Article

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