Locally advanced rectal cancer: MR imaging in prediction of response after preoperative chemotherapy and radiation therapy

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 730-739

  Barbaro, Brunella ^a   Fiorucci, Cecilia ^a   Tebala, Carmen ^a   Valentini, Vincenzo ^a   Gambacorta, Maria Antonietta ^a   Vecchio, Fabio Maria ^a   Rizzo, Gianluca ^a   Coco, Claudio ^a   Crucitti, Antonio ^a   Ratto, Carlo ^a   Bonomo, Lorenzo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; OXALIPLATIN; RALTITREXED;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62649098345     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2503080310     Document Type: Article

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