Modified Wong's classification improves the accuracy of rectal cancer staging by endorectal ultrasound and MRI

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1332-1338

  Muñoz, Elena ^a   Granero Castro, Pablo ^b   Frasson, Matteo ^b   Escartin, Jorge ^b   Esclapez, Pedro ^b   Campos, Salvador ^c   Flor Lorente, Blas ^b   Garcia Granero, Eduardo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^c Hospital General Universitario Avda   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Chemoradiotherapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rectal cancer; TNM classification; Ultrasound; Wong's classification

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED WONG CLASSIFICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECTUM CANCER; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84888353238     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e3182a69a3b     Document Type: Article

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