A new rectal ultrasonographic method for the staging of rectal cancer

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1475-1480

  Beer Gabel, Marc ^a,b   Assouline, Yehudith ^a   Zmora, Oded ^a   Venturero, Maurice ^a   Bar Meir, Simon ^a   Avidan, Binjamin ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Rectal cancer; Rectum; Transrectal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 68149124264     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181a7b69d     Document Type: Article

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