Flexible sigmoidoscopy does not significantly increase polyp and cancer detection yield when used to supplement ct colonography

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Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-60

  Selinger, C P ^a   Mullender, J ^a   Choudhury, S ^a   Jones, P E ^a   Sukumar, S ^a   Ramesh, J ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT colonography; Double contrast barium enema; Flexible sigmoidoscopy; Polyp and cancer detection

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARIUM SULFATE; CARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 84855184216     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: 14219867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334702     Document Type: Article

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