Rectal cancer: Local staging and assessment of lymph node involvement with endoluminal US, CT, and MR imaging - A meta-analysis

Radiology

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 773-783

  Bipat, Shandra ^a   Glas, Afina S ^a   Slors, Frederik J M ^a   Zwinderman, Aeilko H ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lymphatic system, neoplasms; Rectum, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLUMINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECTUM CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4143096843     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2323031368     Document Type: Article

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