Preoperative evaluation of colorectal cancer using CT colonography, MRI, and PET/CT

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 16964-16975

  Kijima, Shigeyoshi ^a   Sasaki, Takahiro ^a   Nagata, Koichi ^a   Utano, Kenichi ^a   Lefor, Alan T ^a   Sugimot, Hideharu ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Computed tomography colonography; Liver metastasis; Magnetic resonance imaging; N staging; Positron emission tomography; Preoperative evaluation; T staging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TUMOR INVASION;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84917710712     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i45.16964     Document Type: Review

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