Gastric cancer: Endoscopic diagnosis and staging

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  El Abiad, Rami ^a   Gerke, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromoendoscopy; Classification; Endoscopic ultrasound; Endoscopy; Gastric cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUODENUM ULCER; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINITIS PLASTICA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH ULCER; ULCER HEALING;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 82955208236     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: 15585042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2011.09.002     Document Type: Review

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