Use of multidetector-row computed tomographic colonography before flexible sigmoidoscopy in the investigation of rectal bleeding

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1163-1164

  Taylor, S A ^a   Halligan, S ^a   Vance, M ^a   Windsor, A ^a   Atkin, W ^a   Bartram, C I ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CECUM TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL DISEASES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0141518197     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4211     Document Type: Article

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