Pretherapy imaging of rectal cancers: ERUS or MRI?

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 733-741

  Beets, Geerard L ^a,b   Beets Tan, Regina G H ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Endorectal ultrasonography; MRI; Pretherapy imaging; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDORECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957140587     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2010.07.004     Document Type: Review

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