Screening colonoscopy from a large single center of Thailand - Something needs to be changed?

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1361-1364

  Aswakul, Pitulak ^a   Prachayakul, Varayu ^a   Lohsiriwat, Varut ^a   Bunyaarunnate, Thirapol ^a   Thirapol, Udom ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Adenoma detection; Colon cancer; Colonoscopy; Polyp detection; Screening; Thailand.

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THAILAND;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND;

EID: 84873020919     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.4.1361     Document Type: Article

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