MR imaging of rectal cancer before and after chemoradiation therapy;La risonanza magnetica nella valutazione dell'adenocarcinoma del retto prima e dopo trattamento chemio-radioterapico

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1125-1138

  Del Vescovo, R ^a   Trodella, L E ^a   Sansoni, I ^a   Cazzato, R L ^a   Battisti, S ^a   Giurazza, F ^a   Ramella, S ^a   Cellini, F ^a   Grasso, R F ^a   Trodella, L ^a   Beomonte Zobel, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation therapy; MRI; MRI and circumferential resection margins; Rectal cancer; Staging of rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAPECITABINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUOROURACIL; OXALIPLATIN; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867862445     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-012-0804-2     Document Type: Article

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