Rectal imaging: Part 1, high-resolution MRI of carcinoma of the rectum at 3 T

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Halappa, Vivek Gowdra ^a   Villalobos, Celia Pamela Corona ^a   Bonekamp, Susanne ^a   Gearhart, Susan L ^a   Efron, Jonathan ^a   Herman, Joseph ^a   Kamel, Ihab R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 T MRI; Rectal cancer; Tumor staging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CIRCUMFERENTIAL RESECTION MARGIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CARCINOMA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863675284     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.8134     Document Type: Article

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