Three-Dimensional Anal Endosonography May Improve Staging of Anal Cancer Compared with Two-Dimensional Endosonography

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-345

  Christensen, Anders F ^a   Nielsen, Michael B ^a   Engelholm, Svend A ^a   Roed, Henrik ^a   Svendsen, Lars B ^a   Christensen, Hanne ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anal carcinoma; Endosonography; Staging; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 1442348771     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-003-0056-z     Document Type: Article

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