Preoperative staging of patients with rectal tumors suitable for transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM): Comparison of endorectal ultrasound and histopathologic findings

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1384-1389

  Zorcolo, Luigi ^a   Fantola, Giovanni ^a   Cabras, Francesco ^a   Marongiu, Luigi ^a   D'Alia, Giuseppe ^a   Casula, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early rectal cancer; Endorectal ultrasound (ERUS); Preoperative staging; Rectal neoplasia; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ADENOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM TUMOR; SALVAGE THERAPY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 68849132457     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0349-y     Document Type: Article

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