Comprehensive Mucosal Visualization at Optical Colonoscopy: Technique Remains the Key

Gastroenterology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 975-976

  East, James E ^a   Saunders, Brian P ^a   Boone, Darren ^b   Halligan, Steve ^b   Taylor, Stuart A ^b  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LETTER; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33748120923     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.07.034     Document Type: Letter

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