Non-laxative CT colonography with barium-based faecal tagging: Is additional phosphate enema beneficial and well tolerated?

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 84, Issue 998, 2011, Pages 120-125

  Davis, W ^a   Nisbet, P ^b   Hare, C ^b   Cooke, P ^b   Taylor, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Jersey General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; FLEET ENEMA; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COLON; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIUM SULFATE; CATHARTICS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENEMA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78751680032     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/23626544     Document Type: Article

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