Colon anatomy based on CT colonography and fluoroscopy: Impact on looping, straightening and ancillary manoeuvres in colonoscopy

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 291-296

  Eickhoff, Axel ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^b   Hartmann, Dirk ^a   Riemann, Jürgen F ^a  

^a KLINIKUM LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Colon anatomy; Colonic looping; Short term fluoroscopy; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INTESTINE LOOP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

COLON; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77649182480     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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