The potential of restaging in the prediction of pathologic response after preoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 455-461

  Maretto, Isacco ^a   Pomerri, Fabio ^a   Pucciarelli, Salvatore ^a   Mescoli, Claudia ^a   Belluco, Enrico ^a   Burzi, Simona ^a   Rugge, Massimo ^a   Muzzio, Pier Carlo ^a   Nitti, Donato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT scan; MRI; Rectal cancer; Staging; TRUS

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846629004     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9269-4     Document Type: Article

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