CT Colonography for Population Screening: Ready for Prime Time?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 647-659

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84930154384     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-014-3454-2     Document Type: Article

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