The utility of pre-operative abdominal computerized tomography scanning in colorectal surgery

Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 232-234

  Isbister, William H ^a   Al Sanea, Osama ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT scanning; Altered decision making; Colorectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029795435     PISSN: 00358835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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