Editorial: Defining the risk of small polyps: Potential value of CTC

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1691-1693

  Cash, Brooks D ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL COLORECTAL POLYP; ADENOMA; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADENOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84951054004     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2015.380     Document Type: Review

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