The diagnosis of colorectal cancer in patients with symptoms: Finding a needle in a haystack

BMC Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fletcher, Robert H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FECES MUCUS; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; HUMAN; MUCUS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NOTE; OCCULT BLOOD; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENESMUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGE; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

AGE FACTORS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 65449125376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-7-18     Document Type: Note

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