The role of endorectal ultrasound in therapeutic decision-making for local vs. transabdominal resection of rectal tumors

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-42

  Doornebosch, P G ^a   Bronkhorst, P J B ^b   Hop, W C J ^a   Bode, W A ^b   Sing, A K ^b   De Graaf, E J R ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b IJSSELLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adenomas; Endorectal ultrasound; Feasibility; Preoperative staging; Rectal cancer; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDORECTAL ULTRASOUND; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXCISION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM ADENOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; RECTUM TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 38349030659     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9104-4     Document Type: Article

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