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Article: Study in JAMA suggests virtual colonoscopy not as accurate.
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- Diagnostics & Imaging Week
- Article date:
- April 22, 2004
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Study in JAMA suggests virtual colonoscopy not as accurate
By KAREN YOUNG
Diagnostics & Imaging Week Staff Writer
A study comparing computed tomographic colonograpy, otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy, with standard colonoscopy, and reported in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), has suggested that results from virtual colonoscopy did not find as many lesions as the gold standard of standard colonoscopy.
In the JAMA study, the objective was to assess the accuracy of virtual colonoscopy in a large number of patients across multiple centers, according to an abstract of the study. A total of ...