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Abdominal Radiology
Published in: Abdominal Radiology 3/2018

01-03-2018

CT colonography: the ideal colorectal cancer screening test

Author: David H. Kim

Published in: Abdominal Radiology | Issue 3/2018

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Excerpt

The marked technological advances in multi-detector CT over the past two decades have allowed a revolutionary change regarding bowel imaging. With the ability of fast volumetric acquisition of the abdomen and pelvis with thin z-axis slice thickness, the bowel can be exquisitely imaged to diagnose previously difficult-to-detect entities such as small bleeding sources in the small bowel and subcentimeter precancerous polyps in the colon. CT colonography (CTC) represents the cross-sectional replacement for the dated fluoroscopic standard of the double-contrast barium enema. …
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Metadata
Title
CT colonography: the ideal colorectal cancer screening test
Author
David H. Kim
Publication date
01-03-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Abdominal Radiology / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 2366-004X
Electronic ISSN: 2366-0058
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-018-1514-3

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