Clinical significance of incidental colorectal wall thickening on computed tomography scan in african-american and hispanic patients

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3159-3164

  Padda, Manmeet ^a   Vadgama, Jaydutt ^a   Sandhu, Paramjit ^a   Dev, Anil ^a   Giannikopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Colorectal wall thickening; CT scan; Hispanics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON ADENOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34848925213     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9639-6     Document Type: Article

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