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Screening Colonoscopy: Endoscopic or Virtual

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With improvements in computed tomography (CT) scan resolution, virtual colonoscopy using reconstructed CT images has emerged as a potential alternative to endoscopy. This chapter explores the role of this alternative to traditional colonoscopic examination.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Nora A. Royer (Department of Surgery)

  2. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, New York, NY, USA

    Tracey D. Arnell (Assistant Attending Surgeon)

  3. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Srinath C. Yeshwant (Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Trainee Award Fellow) & Ronald M. Summers (Senior Investigator, Staff Radiologist)

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Carol E. H. Scott-Conner MD, PhD (Professor) (Professor)

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Royer, N.A., Arnell, T.D., Yeshwant, S.C., Summers, R.M. (2008). Screening Colonoscopy: Endoscopic or Virtual. In: Scott-Conner, C.E.H. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Strategic Decision Making. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76671-3_43

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