Reasons for failure to diagnose colorectal carcinoma at colonoscopy

Endoscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 499-503

  Leaper, M ^a   Johnston, M J ^a   Barclay, M ^a   Dobbs, B R ^a   Frizelle, Frank A ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEW ZEALAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIUM SULFATE; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATABASES; ENEMA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3042513983     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-814399     Document Type: Article

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