Accuracy of Endorectal Ultrasonography and Computed Tomography for Restaging Rectal Cancer after Preoperative Chemoradiation

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-12

  Huh, Jung Wook ^a   Park, Yoon Ah ^a   Jung, Eun Joo ^a   Lee, Kang Young ^a   Sohn, Seung Kook ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 45549090749     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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