Much colonic surface visualization by a standard colonoscope with a transparent hood

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1568-

  Matsushita, Mitsunobu ^a   Danbara, Naoyuki ^a   Fukui, Toshiro ^a   Matsumoto, Takayuki ^a   Omiya, Mika ^a   Uchida, Kazushige ^a   Okazaki, Kazuichi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 44949128830     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01880_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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