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Comparative evaluation of CT and MRI in the preoperative staging of colon cancer.
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- Diagnostic accuracy of CT for identifying high-risk colon cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European radiology · 2026Pooled it
- CT diagnostic performance for preoperative staging of colon cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European radiology · 2026Pooled it
- Advancements in Image-Based Analyses for Morphology and Staging of Colon Cancer: A Comprehensive Review.BioMed research international · 2025Pooled it
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- Current Status and Challenges of Imaging-Based Diagnosis of Lymph Node Metastasis in Colon Cancer: The Lymph Node Committee of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum.Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2026Review
- Challenges of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in mismatch repair-deficient/microsatellite-unstable localized colon cancer patients.ESMO open · 2026Review
- A Multiphase CT-Based Integrated Deep Learning Framework for Rectal Cancer Detection, Segmentation, and Staging: Performance Comparison with Radiologist Assessment.Journal of imaging · 2026Article
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- Predictive value of computed tomography radiomics for lymphatic-vascular space infiltration in colon cancer.American journal of cancer research · 2026Article
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- Local fat, local risk: mesorectal fat volume outperforms BMI in predicting rectal cancer surgery outcomes.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of dual-layer spectral computed tomography virtual monoenergetic imaging with multiplanar reformation for T-staging of colorectal cancer.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Impact of preoperative abdominal MRI staging on outcomes for stage II-III colon cancer: a propensity score-matched cohort study.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- [Role of radiology for primary staging of colorectal cancer].Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Transcriptome-Wide Analysis and Experimental Validation from FFPE Tissue Identifies Stage-Specific Gene Expression Profiles Differentiating Adenoma, Carcinoma In-Situ and Adenocarcinoma in Colorectal Cancer Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- High-performance CT features supporting accurate pre-operative tumor staging in colon cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to compare the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) against computed tomography (CT) in various aspects of local staging in colon cancer patients. This study was a prospective single arm diagnostic accuracy study. All consecutive adult patients with confirmed colon cancer that met the current criteria for surgical resection were considered as eligible. Diagnostic performance assessment included T (T1/T2 vs T3/T4 and < T3ab vs > T3cd) and N (N positive) staging, serosa and retroperitoneal surgical margin (RSM) involvement and extramural vascular invasion (EMVI). Imaging was based on a 3 Tesla MRI system and the evaluation of all sequences (T1, T2 and diffusion-weighted imaging-DWI series) by two independent readers. CT scan was performed in a 128 row multidetector (MD) CT scanner (slice thickness: 1 mm) with intravenous contrast. Pathology report was considered as the gold standard for local staging. Sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated for both observers. MRI displayed a higher diagnostic performance over CT in terms of T1/T2 vs T3/T4 (SE: 100% vs 83.9%, SP: 96.6% vs 81%, AUC: 0.825 vs 0.983, p < 0.001), N positive (p < 0.001) and EMVI (p = 0.023) assessment. An excellent performance of MRI was noted in the T3ab vs T3cd (CT AUC
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