**3. Conclusions**

The pelvic MRI examination has a special utility both in the preoperative evaluation of the patients with rectal cancer and in the postoperative follow-up of these patients. Nowadays, this method represent the "gold standard" imagistic method in the evaluation of these patients.

*The Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Patients… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99580*
