Colonoscopy as a triage screening test

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 759-760

  Bretthauer, Michael ^a,b   Kalager, Mette ^c,d  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d TELEMARK HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON ADENOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84857407265     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1114639     Document Type: Editorial

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