Usefulness of Perfusion CT to Assess Response to Neoadjuvant Combined Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-213

  Curvo Semedo, Luís ^a   Portilha, M Antónia ^a   Ruivo, Catarina ^a   Borrego, Margarida ^a   Leite, Júlio S ^a   Caseiro Alves, Filipe ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Perfusion; Prognosis; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FOLINATE CALCIUM; UFT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84855278035     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.10.019     Document Type: Article

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