Progress in rectal cancer staging and treatment

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Pramateftakis, M G ^a   Kanellos, D ^a   Vrakas, G ^a   Tsachalis, S ^a   Raptis, D ^a   Makrantonakis, A ^a   Koukouritaki, Z ^a   Kanellos, I ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer treatment; Rectal cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953308520     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: 1128045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-010-0619-7     Document Type: Article

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