FigureContrast-enhanced computed tomographic scan revealing “whorl-like” circumferential
rectal wall thickening with partial obliteration of the lumen (A) and downward extension of tumor invasion to the lower rectum and the level of the
anal verge with infiltration into the perirectal fat plane (B).
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Published online: July 05, 2012
Accepted:
April 30,
2012
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