Should we screen for colorectal cancer in liver transplantation?

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-38

  Delcò, Fabiola ^a   Müllhaupt, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENTERITIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SKIN CANCER; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AGE FACTORS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 28844471421     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2005.10.011     Document Type: Review

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