Progressive CT system technology and experience improve the perceived preoperative stage of gastric cancer

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-34

  Blackshaw, Guy R J C ^a   Stephens, Michael R ^a   Lewis, Wyn G ^a   Boyce, Jamie ^a   Barry, John D ^a   Edwards, Paul ^a   Allison, Miles C ^a   Thomas, Gerald V ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Gastric cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STRENGTH; TUMOR BIOPSY; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 15444376602     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-004-0311-6     Document Type: Article

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