An Update on Imaging of Colorectal Cancer

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 819-847

  Wald, Christoph ^a   Scheirey, Christopher D ^a   Tran, Tai M ^a   Erbay, Nazli ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCREDITATION; BARIUM ENEMA; BLADDER; BONE MARROW; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; POLYPECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; UNITED STATES; UTERUS;

COLON; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746912397     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.06.001     Document Type: Review

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