Resectability of rectal cancers still fixed after radio-chemotherapy: Evaluation by digital rectal examination, MRI, and intraoperative examination

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-10

  Baatrup, Gunnar ^a   Pfeiffer, P ^b   Svolgaard, Birgitte ^a   Jensen, H A ^b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLINATE CALCIUM; UFT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLECTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALPATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29244477883     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-005-0747-0     Document Type: Article

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