## Abstract During the past decades the management of patients with rectal cancer has substantially changed, with a significant reduction in local recurrence rates following the introduction of better imaging, better surgery, and more efficient neoadjuvant therapy. This review discusses the clinica
Local staging of rectal cancer: A review of imaging
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 35 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1053-1807
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