CT colonography for investigation of patients with symptoms potentially suggestive of colorectal cancer: A review of the UK SIGGAR trials

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1026, 2013, Pages

  Halligan, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; ANXIETY; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ENEMA;

ANXIETY; BARIUM SULFATE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENEMA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879817955     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20130137     Document Type: Review

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