Screening Virtual Colonoscopy - Ready for Prime Time?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2261-2264

  Morrin, Martina M ^a   LaMont, Thomas ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345305782     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe038181     Document Type: Editorial

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