Prevalence of left-sided colorectal cancer and benefit of flexible sigmoidoscopy: A county hospital experience

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 994-997

  Kumar, Ravin R ^a,b   King, Justin ^a   Holt, Alicia ^a   Huynh, Richard ^a   Mittal, Raj ^a   Deen, Raeed ^a   Kim, Justin ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; COLON TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 38449113945     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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