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Should all colonoscopies be performed in the morning?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 4, pages 366–367 (2007)Cite this article

boxed-textSanaka MR et al. (2006) Afternoon colonoscopies have higher failure rates than morning colonoscopies. Am J Gastroenterol 101: 2726–2730

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  1. JD Waye is Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at Mount Sinai Hospital, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.,

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