title: The detection and evaluation of locally recurrent rectal cancer with rectal endosonography.
abstract: Eighty-five patients treated surgically for rectal cancer have been followed up by conventional clinical examination, sigmoidoscopy, and endosonography. Local recurrence was diagnosed in 22 patients. Nineteen of these had either sigmoidoscopic or digital evidence of recurrence and three were diagnosed solely by endosonography. In all cases endosonography gave additional information on which to base management decisions. Routine use of endosonography should allow the detection of early recurrence in a larger number of patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beynon
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Mortensen
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Foy
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Channer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rigby
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Virjee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography