Whole-body MR imaging versus sequential multimodal diagnostic algorithm for staging patients with rectal cancer: Cost analysis

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 182, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 793-802

  Huppertz, A ^a   Schmidt, M ^b   Wagner, M ^a   Puettcher, O ^c   Asbach, P ^a   Strassburg, J ^c   Stockmann F ^c   Schoffski O ^b   Maurer, M H ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c VIVANTES KLINIKUM IM FRIEDRICHSHAIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

colorectal carcinoma; cost cost analysis (CCA); CT spiral; gadoxetic acid; MR imaging; total mesorectal excision (TME)

Indexed keywords

GADOXETIC ACID; IOPROMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ABDOMEN; ACCOUNTING; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABOR; LIVER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM; RECTUM CANCER; REIMBURSEMENT; SURGEON; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; WORK SCHEDULE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECTUM TUMOR; SECONDARY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GERMANY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROCTOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77956037323     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: 14389010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245463     Document Type: Article

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