Preoperative investigations for metastatic staging of colon and rectal cancer across multiple centres - What is current practice?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 592-600

  Kosmider, Suzanne ^a,b   Stella, D L ^b   Field, K ^a   Moore, M ^c   Ananda, S ^b   Oakman, C ^d   Singh, M ^e   Gibbs, P ^b  

^a BioGrid Australia   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Monash University and Bendigo Health Care Group   (Australia)

^d BOX HILL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Preoperative; Staging

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67749120545     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2008.01614.x     Document Type: Article

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