The “valley sign” in small and diminutive adenomas: prevalence, interobserver agreement, and validation as an adenoma marker

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 614-621

  Rex, Douglas K ^a   Ponugoti, Prasanna ^a   Kahi, Charles ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL POLYP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIST; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; NARROW BAND IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION STUDY; VALLEY SIGN; VIDEORECORDING; CLASSIFICATION; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NARROW BAND IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 85008237847     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2016.10.011     Document Type: Article

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