Imaging of anorectal disease

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-27

  Stoker, J ^a,c   Rociu, E ^a   Wiersma, T G ^b   Lameris J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS FISTULA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ATROPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TUMOR; REVIEW; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANUS DISEASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSTIPATION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 0033988896     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.2000.01338.x     Document Type: Review

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