ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Pretreatment Staging of Colorectal Cancer

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2017, Pages S234-S244

  Fowler, Kathryn J ^a   Kaur, Harmeet ^b   Cash, Brooks D ^c   Feig, Barry W ^d   Gage, Kenneth L ^e   Garcia, Evelyn M ^f   Hara, Amy K ^g   Herman, Joseph M ^h   Kim, David H ⁱ   Lambert, Drew L ^j   Levy, Angela D ^k   Peterson, Christine M ^l   Scheirey, Christopher D ^m   Small, William ⁿ   Smith, Martin P ^o   Lalani, Tasneem ^p   Carucci, Laura R ^q  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^k GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^o BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^q VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Appropriate Use Criteria; Appropriateness Criteria; AUC; colorectal cancer staging; rectal cancer imaging; rectal cancer MRI; rectal cancer transrectal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM CANCER; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; COLON TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER TUMOR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; SECONDARY; UNITED STATES;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85018398066     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.02.012     Document Type: Article

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