Prevalence of colorectal neoplasms in Asian Americans

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 160-167

  Lam, Khoa D ^a,b   Garcia, Ruel T ^b,c   Nguyen, Long H ^b   Trinh, Huy ^b,c   Triadafilopoulos, George ^d   Phan, Jeanine T ^b,d   Nguyen, Khanh ^c   Nguyen, Huy ^c   Ahmed, Aijaz ^d   Nguyen, Mindie H ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pacific Health Foundation   (United States)

^c San Jose Gastroenterology   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenomas; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Colorectal polyps; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYP; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK;

ADENOMA; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 58149296151     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-008-0499-0     Document Type: Article

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