Is half-knowledge worse than ignorance?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 542-543

  Cass, Oliver W ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNOWLEDGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; SMALL INTESTINE; VATER PAPILLA; VIDEO CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; AMPULLA OF VATER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; JEJUNUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748701016     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.07.014     Document Type: Editorial

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