Rectal cancer staging: Is there an optimal method?

Future Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-100

  Phlman, Lars ^b   Torkzad, Michael R ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CT scan; ERUS; MRI; preoperative staging; rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; WHOLE BODY MRI;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650609460     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.10.164     Document Type: Review

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