T Colonography Standards tandards for Gastroenterologists for Performing and Interpreting iagnostic Computed Tomographic Colonography
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Dallas, Texas; Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, righam and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Predictive Health, LLC, Phoenix, Arizona; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, ethesda, Maryland; Mayo Clinic, Department of Radiology, Rochester, Minnesota; Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Kansas School of Medicine, epartment of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri; **Indiana Medical Associates, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Independent Health Care Consultant, Boston, Massachusetts; §§ nd AGA Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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CT colonography standards.
Computed tomography (CT) colonography is the established successor to the barium enema for the detection of colonic neoplasia due to superior performance and patient experience. Consequently, CT colonography is widely disseminated across Western populations and increasingly provided by both subspecialist and general radiologists alike. As a result, CT colonography is now part of the core traini...
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