Improving protection against proximal colon cancer by colonoscopy

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 745-754

  Lasisi, Femi ^a   Rex, Douglas K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bowel preparation; colonoscopy; colorectal cancer; flat and depressed; lesions; polypectomy; serrated polyps

Indexed keywords

BRAF GENE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PREVENTION; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLON INJURY; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOMA; CATHARTICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS;

EID: 80155156963     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: 17474132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/egh.11.78     Document Type: Review

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