Screening flexible sigmoidoscopy using an upper endoscope is better tolerated by women

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1074-1080

  Farraye, Francis A ^a   Horton, Kimberlee ^b   Hersey, Harry ^b   Trnka, Yvona ^b   Heeren, Timothy ^b   Provenzale, Dawn ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPE; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE SIGMOIDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM POLYP; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOIDOSCOPES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 3142670761     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.30215.x     Document Type: Article

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