CT colonography in detection of colorectal carcinoma

CT colonography in detection of colorectal carcinoma

BACKGROUND Diagnostic methods used in screening and detecting colorectal carcinoma are digitorectal examination, faecal occult blood testing, sigmoidoscopy, DNA stool analysis, barium enema, colonoscopy, and as of recently CT colonography. The aim of this study was to establish diagnostic accuracy and comfort of CT colonography compared to colonoscopy and barium enema. PATIENTS AND METHODS We...

CT colonography in early detection of colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and the fourth leading cause of cancer death. In the United States it occupies the second place: only lung cancer claims more lives. The prevalence of colorectal cancer amounts to about 1 million in the United States alone [1]. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 112,340 new cases of colon cancer and 41,420 new cases of re...

CT colonography and colorectal screening.

Computer Aided Detection of Potential Colorectal Neoplasia at CT Colonography

Colorectal Neoplasia : Performance Characteristics of CT Colonography

1 From the Departments of Radiology (J.Y., R.K.H., A.M.S.G., S.D.W.) and Gastroenterology (G.A.A., K.R.M.), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121; and the Departments of Radiology (J.Y., R.K.H., A.M.S.G., S.D.W.) and Gastroenterology (G.A.A., K.R.M.), University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. From the 1999 RSNA scientific assembly. Received ...