Optimal methods for staging rectal cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Muthusamy, V Raman ^a   Chang, Kenneth J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALGORITHM; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDEMA; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36749094045     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-07-1137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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