Measurement of colonic polyps by radiologists and endoscopists: Who is most accurate?

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 874-881

  Punwani, S ^a   Halligan, S ^a   Irving, P ^a   Bloom, S ^a   Bungay, A ^a   Greenhalgh, R ^a   Godbold, J ^a   Taylor, S A ^a   Altman, D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon; Colonoscopy; CT; CT colonography; Measurment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLON POLYP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REFERENCE VALUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 52049127020     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0830-8     Document Type: Article

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