The Dilemma of Incomplete Colonoscopy: What Is the Next Best Test?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 541-542

  Atia, Mary A ^a   Ramirez, Francisco C ^a   Leighton, Jonathan A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; COLON CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POLYPECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84876727541     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.11.032     Document Type: Editorial

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