The colonoscoy in elderly patients;Il ruolo della coloscopia nella quarta età

Annali Italiani di Chirurgia

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-134

  Cirillo, Michele ^a   Pizzi, Antonio Li ^b   Gargiulo, Giovanna ^a   Frattolillo, Fiorentina ^a   Piantadosi, Francesca ^a   Mattera, Concetta ^a   Afeltra, Luigi ^a   Gennarelli, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura Clinica Villa Maria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Elderly patients

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MULTICENTER STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; COLITIS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; ITALY; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349773798     PISSN: 2239253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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