Assessment of local stage in rectal cancer using endorectal ultrasonography (EUS)

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Bali, C ^a   Nousias, V ^a   Fatouros, M ^a   Stefanou, D ^b   Kappas, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Endorectal ultrasonography; Preoperative staging; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM TUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13844319874     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-004-0147-4     Document Type: Article

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