Radiologic assessment of rectosigmoid cancer before and after neoadjuvant radiation therapy: Comparison between quantitation techniques

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 526-530

  Luccichenti, Giacomo ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^b   Sianesi, Mario ^c   Roncoroni, Luigi ^c   Pavone, Paolo ^c   Krestin, Gabriel P ^b  

^a Fondazione Biomedica Europea Onlus   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON DILATATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 15944421457     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.2.01840526     Document Type: Article

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