Spiral CT of colon cancer: Imaging features and role in management

Radiographics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 419-430

  Horton, Karen M ^a   Abrams, Ross A ^b   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon, CT, 75.12115; Colon, neoplasms, 75.32; Intestinal neoplasms, CT, 75.12115, 75.32; Intestinal neoplasms, diagnosis, 75.32; Intestinal neoplasms, staging, 75.32

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLON DISEASE; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034145660     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.20.2.g00mc14419     Document Type: Article

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