Diagnostic Colonoscopy: The End Is Coming

Gastroenterology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 992-994

  Bar Meir, Simon ^a   Wallace, Michael B ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SKILL;

EID: 33749323222     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.08.070     Document Type: Article

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