Pre-operative staging of recto-sigmoid colon carcinoma by upper gastrointestinal endoscopic ultrasonography

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 891-893

  Tseng, Li Jung ^a   Mo, Lein Ray ^a   Thian, Lok Tio ^b   Jao, Yeun Tarl Fresner Ng ^a  

^a TAINAN MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon carcinoma; Endoscopic ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLON CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SIGMOID CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLON, SIGMOID; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032906081     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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