Added value of CT colonography after a positive conventional colonoscopy: Impact on treatment strategy

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-47

  Mainenti, P P ^a,b,c   Romano, M ^a,b   Imbriaco, M ^a,b   Camera, L ^b   Pace, L ^b   D'Antonio, D ^b   Bucci, L ^b   Galloro, G ^b   Salvatore, M ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Computed tomographic colonography; Neoplasm; Treatment strategy

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 12844261594     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-004-0246-8     Document Type: Article

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