Assessment of publication bias in the reporting of EUS performance in staging rectal cancer

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 808-816

  Harewood, Gavin C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERIODICALS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBLICATION BIAS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17544376607     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.41035.x     Document Type: Review

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