Gastroenterology
Volume 133, Issue 4 , Pages 1077-1085 , October 2007

Five-Year Colon Surveillance After Screening Colonoscopy

  • David A. Lieberman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: David Lieberman, MD, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland VA Medical Center P3-GI, 1037 SW Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, Oregon 97239.
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  • David G. Weiss

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Perry Point, Maryland
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  • William V. Harford

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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  • Dennis J. Ahnen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
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  • Dawn Provenzale

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Stephen J. Sontag

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines, Illinois
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  • Thomas G. Schnell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines, Illinois
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  • Gregorio Chejfec

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines, Illinois
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  • Donald R. Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri
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  • Jayashri Kidao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California
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  • John H. Bond

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  • Douglas B. Nelson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  • George Triadafilopoulos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
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  • Francisco C. Ramirez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
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  • Judith F. Collins

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
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  • Tiina K. Johnston

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
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  • Kenneth R. McQuaid

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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  • Harinder Garewal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
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  • Richard E. Sampliner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
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  • Romeo Esquivel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
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  • Douglas Robertson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont

Received 22 January 2007 ,Accepted 14 June 2007.

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 Supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Program (No. 380) and The Department of Veterans Affairs with statistical support for the study (to D.G.W.)

 The Department of Veterans Affairs approved final submission of the manuscript.

 Conflicts of interest: None relevant to this manuscript.

PII: S0016-5085(07)01306-6

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.07.006

Gastroenterology
Volume 133, Issue 4 , Pages 1077-1085 , October 2007

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