Evaluation of a pre-operative staging protocol in the management of colorectal carcinoma

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-42

  Griffiths, E A ^a   Browell, D A ^a   Cunliffe, W J ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Radiological imaging; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13844254973     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2004.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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