Preoperative staging of rectal cancer: Pelvic MRI plus abdomen and pelvic CT. Does extrahepatic abdomen imaging matter? A case for routine thoracic CT

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-263

  Adeyemo, Dayo ^a,c   Hutchinson, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT; Lung metastasis; Lung staging; MRI; Preoperative staging; Rectal cancer; Rectal malignancy; Thoracic CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABDOMEN; AGED; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60549099233     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2008.01588.x     Document Type: Article

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