Flat lesions missed at conventional colonoscopy (CC) and visualized by CT colonography (CTC): A pictorial essay

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-32

  Coppola, Francesca ^a   Regge, Daniele ^b   Flor, Nicola ^c   Papadopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Golfieri, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IRCC Candiolo   (Italy)

^c SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL COLONOSCOPY; DYSPLASIA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR INVASION; COLON TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84897613882     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-013-0052-2     Document Type: Review

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