Preoperative staging CT thorax in patients with colorectal cancer: Its clinical importance

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1260-1266

  Hogan, John ^a,b   O'Rourke, Colin ^a,b   Duff, Gerald ^a   Burton, Michael ^a   Kelly, Niall ^a,b   Burke, John ^a   Coffey, John Calvin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colon; Computed tomography; Rectum; Thoracic staging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG LESION; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECONDARY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84921720022     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000210     Document Type: Article

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