CT colonography: An update

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 429-437

  Aschoff, Andrik J ^a   Ernst, Andrea S ^a   Brambs, Hans Juergen ^a   Juchems, Markus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; CT colonography; Screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 39049168125     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0764-1     Document Type: Review

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