Colonoscopy: Virtual and optical - Another look, another view

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-16

  Ferrucci, Joseph T ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPTICAL COLONOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 15944399416     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2351041556     Document Type: Editorial

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