Flat colorectal neoplasms and the impact of the revised Vienna Classification on their reporting: A case-control study in UK and Japanese patients

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 812-819

  Suzuki, Noriko ^a,b   Price, Ashley ^a   Talbot, Ian ^a   Wakasa, Kouichi ^b   Arakawa, Tetsuo ^b   Ishiguro, Shingo ^c   Fraser, Chris ^a   Saunders, Brian ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasm; Flat neoplasms; Revised Vienna Classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIENNA CLASSIFICATION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 33745359851     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520600610345     Document Type: Article

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