Preoperative radiotherapy for resectable cancer of the middle-distal rectum: Its effect on the primary lesion as determined by endorectal ultrasound using flexible echo colonoscope

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 283-286

  Bozzetti, F ^a   Andreola, S ^a   Rossetti, C ^a   Zucali, R ^a   Meroni, E ^a   Baratti, D ^a   Bertario, L ^a   Doci, R ^a   Gennari, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030459496     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003840050063     Document Type: Article

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