Accuracy of single phase contrast enhanced multidetector CT colonography in the preoperative staging of colo-rectal cancer

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 453-459

  Mainenti, Pier Paolo ^a,b   Cirillo, Luigi Carlo ^b,c   Camera, Luigi ^b   Persico, Francesco ^b   Cantalupo, Teresa ^b   Pace, Leonardo ^b   Palma, Giovanni Domenico De ^b   Persico, Giovanni ^b   Salvatore, Marco ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Pellegrini Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Colonography; Multidetector CT; Staging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHASE CONTROL; RADIOLOGY;

COLO-RECTAL CANCER; COLONOGRAPHY; NON-IONIC CONTRAST AGENT; PORTAL PHASES;

TUMORS;

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751181671     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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