Extracolonic findings with computed tomographic colonography: Asset or liability?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 685-686

  Fletcher, Robert H ^a   Pignone, Michael ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS;

EID: 42449088843     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.7.685     Document Type: Editorial

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