Making the most of currently available bowel preparations for colonoscopy

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 317-326

  Atreja, Ashish ^a   Nepal, Sansrita ^b   Lashner, Bret A ^a  

^a CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ALGORITHM; COLONOSCOPY; HUMAN; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; CATHARTICS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 77954675127     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.77a.09122     Document Type: Review

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