The role of carcinoembryonic antigen as a predictor of the need for preoperative computed tomography in colon cancer patients

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 897-901

  Holt, Alicia D ^a   Kim, Justin T ^a   Murrell, Zuri ^a   Huynh, Richard ^a   Stamos, Michael J ^b   Kumar, Ravin R ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OMENTUM; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; CANCER STAGING; COLON TUMOR; FORECASTING; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750700472     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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