Screening Computed Tomography: Will It Result in Overdiagnosis of Renal Carcinoma?

Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 986-990

  Fenton, Joshua J ^a,c   Weiss, Noel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Box 357183   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomographic colonography; Epidemiology; Kidney neoplasms; Mass screening; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; META ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1242291792     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20055     Document Type: Article

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