Screening colonoscopy in very elderly patients: Judgment versus dogma [7]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 457-458

  Lin, Otto S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; COLONOSCOPY; DNA DETERMINATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LETTER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; TREATMENT INDICATION; AGE; AGED; COLON DISEASE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 33846469314     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00904_7.x     Document Type: Letter

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