Preoperative T Staging of Potentially Resectable Esophageal Cancer: A Comparison between Free-Breathing Radial VIBE and Breath-Hold Cartesian VIBE, with Histopathological Correlation

Purpose: To compare the T staging of potentially resectable esophageal cancer using free-breathing radial VIBE (r-VIBE) and breath-hold Cartesian VIBE (C-VIBE), with pathologic confirmation of the T stage. Materials and Methods: Fifty patients with endoscopically proven esophageal cancer and indeter...

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Main Authors: Fengguang Zhang, Jinrong Qu, Hongkai Zhang, Hui Liu, Jianjun Qin, Zhidan Ding, Yin Li, Jie Ma, Zhongxian Zhang, Zhaoqi Wang, Jianwei Zhang, Shouning Zhang, Yafeng Dong, Robert Grimm, Ihab R. Kamel, Hailiang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-06-01
Series:Translational Oncology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936523316302807