Motion - Colonoscopic surveillance is more cost effective than colectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis: Arguments against the motion

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 122-124

  Ekbom, Anders ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Cost effective; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSPLASIA; FAMILY HISTORY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; MASS SCREENING;

COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 0037310965     PISSN: 08357900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2003/149259     Document Type: Review

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