Colorectal cancer: features and investigation

Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 302-305

  Hall, Nigel ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colonoscopy; colorectal neoplasms; colorectal surgery; neoplasm staging; virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER; LOOSE FECES; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT BLOOD; PATHOGENESIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; THORAX; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 34249000195     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.03.002     Document Type: Review

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