Accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound to assess tumor response after neoadjuvant treatment in rectal cancer: Can we trust the findings?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1141-1146

  Pastor, Carlos ^a   Subtil, Jose Carlos ^b   Sola, Jesus ^b   Baixauli, Jorge ^a   Beorlegui, Carmen ^c   Arbea, Leire ^b   Aristu, Javier ^b   Hernandez Lizoain, Jose Luis ^a  

^a Division of Colorectal Surgery   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy; Rectal cancer; Response assessment

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; OXALIPLATIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052724958     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e31821c4a60     Document Type: Article

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