Prevalence of colorectal cancer and its precursor lesions in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing total colonoscopy: Results of a large prospective, multicenter, controlled endoscopy study

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 556-561

  Blumenstein, Irina ^a   Tacke, Wolfgang ^c   Bock, Herbert ^c   Filmann, Natalie ^b   Lieber, Elena ^a   Zeuzem, Stefan ^a   Trojan, Jörg ^a   Herrmann, Eva ^b   Schröder, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Quality Management Group of Gastroenterologists in Hesse   (Germany)

Author keywords

adenoma detection rate; cancer detection rate; diagnostic colonoscopy; screening colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLEEDING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYPECTOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADENOMA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84876409171     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e32835d1ef4     Document Type: Article

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