Colorectal cancer: Management of small polyps detected by CT colonography

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 568-570

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; POLYP; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; TUMOR VOLUME;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DECISION MAKING; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 70349971738     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2009.161     Document Type: Article

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