Current trends in staging rectal cancer

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 828-834

  Samee, Abdus ^a   Selvasekar, Chelliah Ramachandran ^a  

^a MID CHESHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography; Endoanal ultrasound; Investigations; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Rectal cancer; Staging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; SURGEON;

EID: 79955931978     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v17.i7.828     Document Type: Article

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