Prevalence of advanced adenomas in small and diminutive colon polyps using direct measurement of size

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2384-2388

  Tsai, Franklin C ^a   Strum, Williamson B ^a  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced adenoma; CT colonography; Polyp size; Screening colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED ADENOMA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SCREENING; CECUM; COLON ADENOMA; COLON POLYP; COLON SPLENIC FLEXURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HEPATIC FLEXURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COLONOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOSIGMOID COLON; RECTUM; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960967511     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1598-x     Document Type: Article

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