Preoperative assessment of prognostic factors in rectal cancer using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 355-364

  Brown, G ^a,b   Radcliffe, A G ^a   Newcombe, R G ^a   Dallimore, N S ^a   Bourne, M W ^a   Williams, G T ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERITONEUM; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0037340550     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4034     Document Type: Article

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