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Quantitative Immunochemical Fecal Occult Blood Test for Diagnosing Colorectal Neoplasia
- Yogesh M. Shastri, MD, DNB; and
- Jürgen Stein, MD, PhD
- From Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
TO THE EDITOR:
We read with great interest Levi and colleagues' article on quantitative immunochemical fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) for diagnosing colorectal neoplasia (1), and we congratulate the authors on a nice piece of work. They have introduced a unique concept of offering an option with different positivity thresholds for performing quantitative immunochemical FOBTs.
In the introduction of their article, the authors mentioned that no English-language study has systematically compared colonoscopy with the fecal immunochemical method for diagnosing colorectal neoplasia. …
