Accuracy of CT colonography in the preoperative staging of colon cancer: a prospective study of 217 patients.
Javier Maupoey IbañezJ Pàmies GuilabertM FrassonA Boscà RobledoF Giner SeguraE García-Granero XiménezPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2019)
CTC provides accurate information for the assessment of tumour localization and T staging, allowing better surgical planning and also allows the selection of locally advanced tumours that may benefit from new treatments such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Keyphrases
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- lymph node
- locally advanced
- rectal cancer
- sentinel lymph node
- pet ct
- squamous cell carcinoma
- radiation therapy
- phase ii study
- computed tomography
- image quality
- patients undergoing
- contrast enhanced
- circulating tumor cells
- high resolution
- dual energy
- positron emission tomography
- health information
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- healthcare
- clinical trial
- mass spectrometry
- open label
- social media