Selecting patients for flexible sigmoidoscopy
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Canadian credentialing guidelines for flexible sigmoidoscopy.
1Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; 2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA; 3Division of Gastroenterology, University of Western Ontario, London; 4St Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto; 5Div...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20904