Costs of Finding an Advanced Adenoma in Colorectal Screening

The authors used computerized decision analysis to estimate the costs of finding and removing an advanced colonic adenoma in patients referred because of a positive fecal occult blood test. An advanced adenoma was defined as a villous adenoma, a tubular adenoma 10 mm or more in size, or a lesion...

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Main Author: Jerome B Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2004-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2004/180351