Filling Defects at CT Colonography: Pseudoand Diminutive Lesions (The Good), Polyps (The Bad), Flat Lesions, Masses, and Carcinomas (The Ugly)

Radiographics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1073-1091

  Macari, Michael ^a   Bini, Edmund J ^a,b   Jacobs, Stacy L ^a   Lange, Nick ^a   Lui, Yvonne W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon neoplasms, CT, 75.1211, 75.30; Colon neoplasms, diagnosis, 75.30; Colon, CT, 75.1211; Computed tomography (CT), three dimensional, 75.12117

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIVERTICULOSIS; EVALUATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; LIPOMA; REVIEW; COLON DISEASE; COLON TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 0142029154     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.235035701     Document Type: Review

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