Digital rectal examination versus spontaneous passage of stool for fecal occult blood testing

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 357-361

  Ashraf, Imran ^a   Paracha, Shafaq R ^a   Arif, Murtaza ^a   Choudhary, Abhishek ^a   Matteson, Michelle L ^a   Clark, Robert E ^a   Godfrey, Jonathan D ^a   Hammad, Hazem T ^a   Bechtold, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

colorectal cancer; digital rectal examination; fecal occult blood test; stool passed spontaneously

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; STOOL PASSED SPONTANEOUSLY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADENOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HUMANS; OCCULT BLOOD; PUBLICATION BIAS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84863742601     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31825bfdc5     Document Type: Review

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