Distance between the rectal wall and mesorectal fascia measured by MRI: Effect of rectal distension and implications for preoperative prediction of a tumour-free circumferential resection margin

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-70

  Slater, A ^a   Halligan, S ^a   Taylor, S A ^a   Marshall, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERATION; AGED; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BACK; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FASCIA; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTESTINE DISTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 29944433686     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2005.08.010     Document Type: Article

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