Colonoscopy: What does it take to get it "right"?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-69

  Weinberg, David S ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; POLYPECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551591724     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-154-1-201101040-00013     Document Type: Editorial

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