How useful is rectal endosonography in the staging of rectal cancer?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 691-697

  Kav, Taylan ^a   Bayraktar, Yusuf ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Colorectal cancer; Diagnostics; Endorectal ultrasonography; Endorectal ultrasound; Nodal metastases; Other rectal tumors; Rectal cancer; Staging; Tumor invasion

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ANASTOMOSIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MICROSURGERY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 76749134791     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i6.691     Document Type: Review

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