Left-sided polyps detected at screening CT colonography: Do we need complete optical colonoscopy for further evaluation?

Radiology

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 429-434

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a   Durick, Nathan A ^a   Pooler, B Dustin ^a   Hassan, Cesare ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b NUOVO REGINA MARGHERITA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 79954994035     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101702     Document Type: Article

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