Symptom presentations and other characteristics of colorectal cancer patients and the diagnostic performance of the Auckland Regional Grading Criteria for Suspected Colorectal Cancer in the South Auckland population

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 1382, 2013, Pages 95-107

  Hsiang, John C ^a   Bai, Wayne ^a   Lal, Dinesh ^a  

^a MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUCKLAND REGIONAL GRADING CRITERIA; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84884552150     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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