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Comment
. 2019 Nov;30(11):2275.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019070710. Epub 2019 Oct 9.

Fecal Immunochemical Screening for Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia in Patients with CKD: Accurate or Not?

Michael G Collins  1   2 , Erin L Symonds  3   4 , Peter A Bampton  4   5 , P Toby Coates  6
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Fecal Immunochemical Screening for Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia in Patients with CKD: Accurate or Not?

Michael G Collins et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; chronic kidney disease; diagnostic accuracy; screening; test performance; verification bias.

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    Wong G, Hope RL, Howard K, Chapman JR, Castells A, Roger SD, Bourke MJ, Macaskill P, Turner R, Williams G, Lim WH, Lok CE, Diekman F, Cross N, Sen S, Allen RDM, Chadban SJ, Pollock CA, Tong A, Teixeira-Pinto A, Yang JYH, Williams N, Au E, Kieu A, James L, Craig JC. Wong G, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Nov;30(11):2276-2277. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019090889. Epub 2019 Oct 9. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019. PMID: 31597717 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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