ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2014
Magnetic resonance imaging in rectal cancer: a surgeon's perspective.
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- Advancements in Image-Based Analyses for Morphology and Staging of Colon Cancer: A Comprehensive Review.BioMed research international · 2025Pooled it
- The Application of Combined PET/MRI in Staging and Response Assessment of Rectal Cancer.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Magnetic resonance imaging radiomics-based prediction of severe inflammatory response in locally advanced rectal cancer patients after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2024Article
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- Optimizing the Personalized Care for the Management of Rectal Cancer: A Consensus Statement.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Outcomes of rectal cancer patients with a positive pathological circumferential resection margin.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- A deep learning nomogram kit for predicting metastatic lymph nodes in rectal cancer.Cancer medicine · 2020Article
- Radiomic Features of Primary Rectal Cancers on Baseline TJournal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2020Article
- Artificial intelligence system of faster region-based convolutional neural network surpassing senior radiologists in evaluation of metastatic lymph nodes of rectal cancer.Chinese medical journal · 2019Article
- Long-term oncological outcomes of robotic versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision of mid-low rectal cancer following neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy.Surgical endoscopy · 2017Article
- Assessment of colon and bladder crosstalk in an experimental colitis model using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2015Article
- Imaging Assessment of the Response to Neoadjuvant Treatment in Rectal Cancer in Relation to Postoperative Pathological Outcomes.Current health sciences journalArticle
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Abstract
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 predicting circumferential resection margin involvement and is used to plan neoadjuvant therapy. The accuracy of MRI in assessing mesorectal lymph nodes remains moderate, as there are no reliable criteria to assess nodal involvement. MRI seems to be good in assessing peritoneal involvement in upper rectal cancer; this however has been assessed in only a few studies and needs further research. For low rectal cancers, mesorectum is thin at the level of levator ani especially in relation to prostate; so predicting circumferential resection margin involvement is not easy. However high spatial resolution coronal imaging shows levator muscles, sphincter complex and intersphincteric plane accurately. This is used to stage low rectal tumors and plan plane of surgery (standard surgery, intersphincteric resection, Extralevator abdominoperineal resection). While most centres perform MRI post chemoradiotherapy, its role in accurate staging post neoadjuvant therapy remains debatable. THe role of Diffusion weighted MRI post neoadjuvant therapy is being evaluated in research settings.
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