Routine preoperative abdominal computed tomography in colon cancer: A utility study

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-109

  Zbar, A P ^a   Rambarat, C ^a   Shenoy, R K ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Colon; Computed tomography; Neoplasms; Staging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COLON SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STOMA; THORAX; URETER STENT; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250655327     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-007-0338-x     Document Type: Article

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