Clinical significance of virtual colonoscopy (CT colonography) with special reference to polyp morphology

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 60, 2004, Pages 1686-1688

  Kawamura, Yutaka J ^a   Sasaki, Jun'ichi ^a   Okamaoto, Hideki ^a   Okamoto, Shizuko ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Osamu ^a   Konishi, Fumio ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colonography; Computed tomography; Morphology; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MORPHOLOGY; PEDUNCULATED POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMIPEDUNCULATED POLYP; SESSILE POLYP;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 6344282275     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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