Forty-one-year-old woman with cT. 3c. N. 0 rectal adenocarcinoma 6 cm from the anal verge. Baseline thin section T2-weighted pelvic MRI(a) before CRT revealed circumferential wall thickening. The EMD was 13.7 mm. b. axial thin section T2-WI after CRT. Pathological examination of the resection specimen revealed pT. 3N. 0 and TRG 3.