Endorectal ultrasound in rectal carcinoma do the literature results really correspond to the realities of routine clinical care?

Endoscopy

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 425-431

  Marusch, F ^a,b,f   Ptok, H ^a,c   Sahm, M ^d   Schmidt, U ^e   Ridwelski, K ^a   Gastinger, I ^a   Lippert, H ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM ERNST VON BERGMANN   (Germany)

^c CARL THIEM KLINIKUM   (Germany)

^d German Red Cross Hospital   (Germany)

^e StatConsult GmbH   (Germany)

^f Ernst von Bergmann Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955836942     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1256111     Document Type: Article

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