Open AccessThe Incidence, Distribution and Clinicopathology of Missed Colorectal Cancer After Diagnostic Colonoscopy
Author(s) -
Edward Laurent,
Hadi Meeran Hussain,
Tak Kit Calvin Poon,
Abraham Ayantunde
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the turkish journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2148-5607
pISSN - 1300-4948
DOI - 10.5152/tjg.2021.20500
Subject(s) - medicine , colonoscopy , transverse colon , colorectal cancer , rectum , ascending colon , incidence (geometry) , sigmoid colon , cohort , cohort study , descending colon , gastroenterology , cancer , physics , optics
Colonoscopy does miss some lesions that may be later diagnosed as post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers (PCCRCs). We evaluated the rate of PCCRCs in a cohort of our patients.
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