Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 100-108 , March 2010

Multimodality imaging of usual and unusual sites of metastasis which occur after definitive therapy for rectal cancer

  • Priya Bhosale

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Box 368, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Tel.: +1 713 792 8177; fax: +1 713 745 1302.
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  • Janio Szklaruk
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  • Revathy Iyer

Received 25 October 2007 ,Accepted 22 December 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2007.12.012

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 100-108 , March 2010

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