Pitfalls and feasibility of a protocol of virtual colonography designed for the screening of colo-rectal pre-cancerous lesions

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Luccichenti, Giacomo ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^b,e   Nogueira, Lucienne ^c   Brambilla, Lorenzo ^d   Gualerzi, Massimo ^d   Del Rio, Paolo ^d   Foggi, Enrico ^d   Sianesi, Mario ^d   Coruzzi, Paolo ^d  

^a Fondazione Biomedica Europea Onlus   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL SÍRIO LIBANÊS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Computed tomography; Polyp; Screening; Virtual colonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON DILATATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRECANCER; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BUTYLSCOPOLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENEMA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 22244469433     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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