CT colonography of a medicare-aged population: Outcomes observed in an analysis of more than 1400 patients

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cash, Brooks D ^a   Riddle, Mark S ^a   Bhattacharya, Ishan ^a   Barlow, Duncan ^a   Jensen, Donald ^a   Moya Del Pino, Nicolas ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Colorectal cancer screening; CT colonography; Medicare; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOID; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LIPOMA; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863650661     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7729     Document Type: Article

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