Is endoscopic ultrasonography still the modality of choice in preoperative staging of gastric cancer?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13775-13782

  Hwang, Sung Wook ^a   Lee, Dong Ho ^b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Gastric cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STOMACH CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR INVASION; ECHOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84909993073     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i38.13775     Document Type: Article

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