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[Preoperative evaluation of rectal cancer]
A Van Gossum1, J L Van Laethem, A Demols
1Service Médico-Chirurgical de Gastro-entérologie, Hôpital Erasme, U.L.B.
Revue Medicale De Bruxelles
|October 30, 2001
Abstract:
For a patient with a rectal tumor, the preoperative staging should answer four questions: Is the rectal tumor unique? Is the patient operable? Are there distal metastases? What is the loco-regional extension? The loco-regional extension is well evaluated by the echo-endoscopy while the involvement of the surrounding organs is better assessed by CT-scan or resonance magnetic imaging.