Is There Still a Role for Double-Contrast Barium Enema Examination?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 389-392

  Canon, Cheri L ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DOUBLE CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN;

BARIUM SULFATE; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENEMA; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 41149145038     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.12.051     Document Type: Article

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