Background: Preoperative staging is essential for planning of optimal therapy for patients
with rectal cancer. Recently, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used frequently because …

Background To achieve better prognosis and quality of life for patients with rectal cancer,
extent of surgery and neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy should accurately reflect disease …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of 3-Tesla magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) for the preoperative staging of rectal cancer. Thirty-five patients with a primary …

Objective This study was designed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) for lateral pelvic lymph-node metastasis. Patients Eighty-four …

Objective The aims were to determine agreement between staging of rectal cancer made by
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and histopathological examination and the influence of …

Accurate preoperative staging of rectal cancer is necessary to identify patients who might
benefit from adjuvant therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was evaluated in 20 …

Different stages of rectal cancer show differing degrees of risk for local recurrence.
Paramount for the selection and differentiated treatment of the different risk groups is a …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in rectal cancer was first investigated in 1999 and has
become almost mandatory in planning rectal cancer treatment. MRI has a high accuracy in …

Rectal cancer is a common malignancy that continues to have a highly variable outcome,
with local pelvic recurrence after surgical resection usually leading to incurable disease. The …

Background The aim was to determine the accuracy of preoperative magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of pathological prognostic factors that influence local …