Clinical significance of colonoscopic findings associated with colonic thickening on computed tomography: Is colonoscopy warranted when thickening is detected?

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 472-475

  Wolff, Jordan H ^a   Rubin, Anna ^a   Potter, Jeffrey D ^a   Lattimore, Waymon ^a   Resnick, Murray B ^a   Murphy, Brian L ^a   Moss, Steven F ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APC   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; Colon thickening; Colonoscopy; Computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLITIS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULITIS; ENDOSCOPY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE WALL; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MELANOSIS; MELENA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; THICKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449144386     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31804c7065     Document Type: Article

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