Endoscopic Ultrasound: Current role and future perspectives in managing rectal cancer patients

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-413

  Cârţânâ, Elena Tatiana ^a   Pârvu, Daniel ^a   Sǎftoiu, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Elastography; Endoscopic ultrasound; Rectal cancer; Staging accuracy; Three dimensional endoscopic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 84055222282     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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