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- Compute Tomographic Colonography
- Colorectal Cancer Screening
- Advanced Adenoma
- Conventional Colonoscopy
- Virtual Colonoscopy
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Ferrucci, J.T. (2006). CTC: Why We Do It. In: Lefere, P., Gryspeerdt, S. (eds) Virtual Colonoscopy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30904-7_1
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