Current Status of CT Colonography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1517-1531

  Frentz, Suzanne M ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 33751350891     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.09.056     Document Type: Article

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