Staging rectal cancer: MRI compared to MDCT

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-327

  Taylor, Alasdair ^a   Slater, Andrew ^b   Mapstone, Nicholas ^a   Taylor, Stuart ^c   Halligan, Steve ^c  

^a ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Rectal cancer; Rectum, CT scanning; Rectum, MRI; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SHORT COURSE THERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34447523338     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9081-4     Document Type: Article

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