Changes in the pathology reporting of rectal cancer: Is it time to adopt synoptic reporting?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1178, 2003, Pages

  Hemmings, Chris ^a   Jeffery, Mark ^b   Frizelle, Frank A ^b  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; STANDARD;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0041829040     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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