Follow-up colonoscopy: screen more, survey less, and save

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 955-957

  Waye, Jerome D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCREENING TEST; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33751394163     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.09.010     Document Type: Editorial

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