TY - BOOK AU - Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed Gomaa AU - Esmaeil Abdelmonem Morad , AU - Farid Gamil Amin , AU - Maha Hussein Helal , TI - The role of MR imaging in the preoperative staging and planning for sphincter sparing surgery in rectal carcinoma / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed Gomaa , KW - Circumferential resection margin KW - High resolution magnetic resonance imaging KW - Rectal cancer N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - Rectal cancer constitutes about one third of all gastrointestinal tumor. High-resolution MRI is the best method of assessing the relation of the rectal tumor with the potential circumferential resection margin (CRM). Therefore it is currently considered the method of cholce for local staging of rectal cancer. The primary surgery of rectal cancer is total mesorectal excision (TME), which plane of dissection is formed by the mesorectal fascia surrounding mesorectal fat and rectum UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -