Differential diagnosis of polypoid lesions seen at CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy)

Radiographics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening, 75.30; Colon neoplasms, CT, 75.12117, 75.12119; Colon neoplasms, diagnosis, 75.30; Colon, CT, 75.12117, 75.12119

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ANORECTAL DISEASE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOID; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; COWDEN SYNDROME; CRONKHITE CANADA SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; EVALUATION; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE POLYP; JUVENILE POLYP; LIPOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; NEUROFIBROMA; OBSERVATION; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; POLYPECTOMY; POPULATION; RADIOLOGIST; RECTUM TUMOR; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VILLOUS ADENOMA; WART VIRUS;

EID: 19744364182     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.246045063     Document Type: Review

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