Transrectal Ultrasound: Accurate Staging for Rectal Cancer

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 338-339

  Wong, W Douglas ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANUS TUMOR; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 0034221933     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(00)80005-0     Document Type: Article

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