Screening Sigmoidoscopy - How Often and How Good?

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 106-108

  Fletcher, Robert H ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; ADULT; COLON TUMOR; NOTE; TIME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038504055     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.1.106     Document Type: Editorial

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