Computed Tomographic Virtual Colonoscopy to Screen for Colorectal Neoplasia in Asymptomatic Adults

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2191-2200

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a,b,e   Choi, J Richard ^a   Hwang, Inku ^a   Butler, James A ^a   Puckett, Michael L ^b,d   Hildebrandt, Hans A ^d   Wong, Roy K ^a   Nugent, Pamela A ^a   Mysliwiec, Pauline A ^a,c   Schindler, William R ^d  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; AGED; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345690179     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa031618     Document Type: Article

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