Automated immunochemical quantitation of haemoglobin in faeces collected on cards for screening for colorectal cancer

Gut

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1256-1260

  Fraser, C G ^a   Mathew, C M ^a   McKay, K ^a   Carey, F A ^b   Steele, R J C ^b  

^a Scottish Bowel Screening Centre Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIVERTICULOSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE POLYP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TURBIDIMETRY;

ADENOMA; AGED; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 50249160741     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2008.153494     Document Type: Article

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