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Clinical significance of magnetic resonance imaging findings in rectal cancer
Charles F Bellows, Bernard Jaffe, Guiseppe Gagliardi, Department of Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States
Lorenzo Bacigalupo, Department of Radiology, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, 16128, Italy
Salvatore Pucciarelli, Department of Surgery, University of Padua, Padua, 35121, Italy
Author contributions: Bellows CF, Jaffe B and Gagliardi G wrote the manuscript; Bacigalupo L and Pucciarelli S contributed materials and wrote sections of the manuscript; Bellows CF and Gagliardi G conceived the idea of the manuscript and performed the literature search.
Correspondence to: Charles F Bellows, MD, Department of Surgery, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States. cbellows@tulane.edu
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Received: February 22, 2011
Revised: April 6, 2011
Accepted: April 13, 2011
Published online: April 28, 2011
Revised: April 6, 2011
Accepted: April 13, 2011
Published online: April 28, 2011
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