Assessment of the value of MRI scan in addition to CT in the pre-operative staging of colorectal liver metastases

Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 146-153

  Wiggans, M G ^a,b   Shahtahmassebi, G ^c   Aroori, S ^a   Bowles, M J ^a   Jackson, S A ^a   Stell, D A ^a,b  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Liver; Neoplasms; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW UP; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84901650651     PISSN: 19416628     EISSN: 19416636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-013-9569-4     Document Type: Article

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