CT Colonography: Techniques and Applications

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-145

  Yee, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Colonoscopy; Colorectal carcinoma; Colorectal polyp; CT colonography; Stool tagging

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; DIATRIZOATE; GLUCAGON; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; TAGITOL V; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON PERFORATION; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FECES; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIQUID; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; RECTAL DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58949102421     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2008.11.002     Document Type: Review

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