The role of CT colonography in colorectal cancer screening

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2315-2323

  Nicholson, Fiona B ^a   Barro, Jennifer L ^a   Bartram, Clive I ^a   Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^b   Halligan, Steven ^a   Taylor, Stuart ^a   Kamm, Michael A ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27744580310     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.50391.x     Document Type: Review

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