Incidence of Advanced Adenomas of the Rectosigmoid Colon Three Years and Five Years after Negative Flexible Sigmoidoscopy in 4010 Patients

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2278-2283

  Strum, Williamson B ^a  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Colon adenomas; Flexible sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RELATIVE; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0347064070     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000007863.43273.0b     Document Type: Article

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