Colorectal cancer: Managing diminutive polyps-what is the optimal approach?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 129-131

  Kim, David H ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIMINUTIVE POLYP; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; TUMOR VOLUME;

BIOPSY; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS;

EID: 79952384688     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2011.19     Document Type: Note

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