Preoperative imaging staging of rectal cancer

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-32

  Karantanas, A H ^a,b   Yarmenitis, S ^a   Papanikolaou, N ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Lymphatic system, rectum; Metastatic disease, rectum; MR imaging diagnosis; Rectum CT; Rectum neoplasms; Rectum sonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947582420     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099167     Document Type: Review

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