Anorectal malignant melanoma: Preoperative usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 836-842

  Matsuoka, Hiroyoshi ^a   Nakamura, Akihisa ^a   Iwamoto, Kaori ^a   Sugiyama, Masanori ^a   Hachiya, Junichi ^a   Atomi, Yutaka ^a   Masaki, Tadahiko ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anorectal malignant melanoma; Malignant melanoma; MRI

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEFECATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA, CLEAR CELL;

EID: 25144508889     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-005-1638-4     Document Type: Article

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