Variation of Agreement in Polyp Size Measurement Between Computed Tomographic Colonography and Pathology Assessment: Clinical Implications

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 220-227

  Gupta, Samir ^a   Durkalski, Valerie ^b   Cotton, Peter ^b   Rockey, Don C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; POLYP SIZE; STATISTICS; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPS;

EID: 38649103796     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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