Feasibility of remote CT colonography at two rural native American medical centers

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1110-1117

  Friedman, Arnold C ^a   Downing, David ^b   Chino, Joachim ^c   Krupinski, Elizabeth ^a   Kilian, Caroline ^d   Lance, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Fort Defiance Indian Hosp   (United States)

^c Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation   (United States)

^d Tucson Med Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; CT colonography; Rural medicine; Teleradiology; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON DILATATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TELECONSULTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARIZONA; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649715068     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4383     Document Type: Article

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