The emerging role of virtual colonoscopy

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-138

  Lefkovitz, Zvi ^a   Shapiro, Robert ^a   Koch, Stephen ^a   Cappell, Mitchell S ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISACODYL; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCAGON; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COLON DILATATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAPHORESIS; DIZZINESS; ENDOSCOPY; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY NECROSIS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PARAMETER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRIDOR; URTICARIA;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 7444253374     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2004.08.004     Document Type: Review

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