Clinical Impact of Endoscopic Ultrasound and Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in the Management of Rectal Carcinoma

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-65

  Shami, Vanessa M ^a   Parmar, Kiranpreet S ^b   Waxman, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic ultrasound; Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration; Rectal cancer staging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUM CANCER; RECURRENT CANCER; ULTRASOUND;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346731277     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-003-0001-1     Document Type: Article

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