Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia
In Malaysia where colorectal cancer screening is not practiced, the detection of colorectal cancers and their precursors are usually in symptomatic patients. Colonoscopy is a widely available diagnostic tool for colorectal diseases. A growing demand of colonoscopic examination in medical practice h...
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| author | Ramasamy, Prabhu Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailani Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manjit Lee, Peter Md Nor, Azmi |
| author_facet | Ramasamy, Prabhu Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailani Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manjit Lee, Peter Md Nor, Azmi |
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| description | In Malaysia where colorectal cancer screening is not practiced, the detection of colorectal cancers and their precursors are usually in symptomatic patients. Colonoscopy is a widely available diagnostic tool for colorectal diseases. A growing demand of colonoscopic examination in medical practice has led to an inevitable rise in health care cost. Therefore, there is a need to optimize the resources for colonoscopic examination. |
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| spelling | iium-179232012-02-05T07:06:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/17923/ Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia Ramasamy, Prabhu Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailani Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manjit Lee, Peter Md Nor, Azmi RD Surgery In Malaysia where colorectal cancer screening is not practiced, the detection of colorectal cancers and their precursors are usually in symptomatic patients. Colonoscopy is a widely available diagnostic tool for colorectal diseases. A growing demand of colonoscopic examination in medical practice has led to an inevitable rise in health care cost. Therefore, there is a need to optimize the resources for colonoscopic examination. 2010 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/17923/1/coloproctology%25202010.pdf Ramasamy, Prabhu and Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailani and Singh, Harbhajan and Singh, Manjit and Lee, Peter and Md Nor, Azmi (2010) Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia. In: 5th Scientific Congress of Asean Society of Colorectal Surgeons & Coloproctology 2010 (8th Malaysian Colorectal Conference) , 5-6 March 2010, Shangri La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.colorectalmy.org/download/past_abstracts/coloproctology%202010.pdf |
| spellingShingle | RD Surgery Ramasamy, Prabhu Mat Hassan, Mohd. Zailani Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manjit Lee, Peter Md Nor, Azmi Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia |
| title | Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia |
| title_full | Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia |
| title_short | Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in Malaysia |
| title_sort | diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with colorectal symptoms from two hospitals in malaysia |
| topic | RD Surgery |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/17923/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/17923/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/17923/1/coloproctology%25202010.pdf |