Virtual colonography: Identification and differentiation of colorectal lesions using multi-detector computed tomography

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 468-476

  Wessling, Johannes ^a   Domagk, Dirk ^a   Lugering, Norbert ^a   Schierhorn, Sebastian ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Domschke, Wolfram ^a   Fischbach, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonography; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; CT; Multi detector CT; Polyps

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRECANCER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17444406330     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520510012055     Document Type: Article

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