Virtual colonoscopy: stamp of approval or word of warning?

Affiliations

¹ Digestive Disease Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and Gastroenterology Division, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. otto.lin@vmmc.org

Comment

Otto S Lin. Lancet. 2013.

. 2013 Apr 6;381(9873):1161-3.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60056-2. Epub 2013 Feb 14.

¹ Digestive Disease Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and Gastroenterology Division, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. otto.lin@vmmc.org

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