Screening: CT colonography: Time for clinical implementation

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 187-188

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADENOMA; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COLON; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 67650116764     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2009.20     Document Type: Article

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