Malignancy risk of small polyps and related factors

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2796-2799

  Unal, Hakan ^a   Selcuk, Haldun ^a   Gokcan, Hale ^a   Tore, Emin ^a   Sar, Aylin ^a   Korkmaz, Murat ^a   Bilezikci, Banu ^a   Demirhan, Beyhan ^a   Gur, Gurden ^a   Yilmaz, Ugur ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colonic polyps; Malignancy risk; Polyp size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 34548485540     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-9782-8     Document Type: Article

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