Instrumental clinical restaging, pathological evaluation, and tumor regression grading: How to assess the response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-13

  Benzoni, Enrico ^c   Terrosu, Giovanni ^a   Intersimone, Donatella ^a   Milan, Elisa ^a   Chiaulon, Germana ^b   Bresadola, Vittorio ^a   Sacco, Cosimo ^c   Sattin, Elisa ^a   Bresadola, Fabrizio ^a   Avellini, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neoadjuvant therapy; Pathologic response; Rectal cancer; Restaging; Tumor regression grading

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750990802     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-006-0092-y     Document Type: Article

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