The capsule and colorectal-cancer screening - The crux of the matter

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 300-301

  Bretthauer, Michael ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 67650918120     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0903924     Document Type: Editorial

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