Endorectal ultrasound in the follow-up of rectal cancer patients treated by local excision or radical surgery

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 818-824

  De Anda, Enrique Hernandez ^a   Lee, Suk Hawn ^a   Finne, Charles O ^a   Rothenberger, David A ^a   Madoff, Robert D ^a   Garcia Aguilar, Julio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Box 0144 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endorectal ultrasound; Follow up; Local excision; Radical surgery; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDORECTAL ULTRASOUND; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; STUDENT T TEST; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; COLECTOMY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2542543643     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0514-2     Document Type: Review

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