The value of high-resolution three-dimensional endorectal ultrasonography in the management of submucosal invasive rectal tumors

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1837-1843

  Santoro, Giulio A ^a   Gizzi, Giuseppe ^b   Pellegrini, Luciano ^b   Battistella, Giuseppe ^a   Di Falco, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Regional Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early rectal cancer; Endorectal ultrasonography; Local excision; Preoperative staging; Rectal polyps; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION THREE DIMENSIONAL ENDORECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOCAL THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM ADENOMA; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; RECTUM TUMOR; SUBMUCOSA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75349112713     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181b16ce9     Document Type: Article

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