Not Your Father's Colonoscopy: A High-tech Future for Screening and Surveillance of Colorectal Cancer

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 607-617

  Krier, Michael J ^a   Pasricha, Pankaj Jay ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SEDATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 47949099017     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2008.03.001     Document Type: Review

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