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Abdominal CT scan may be helpful in diagnosis of stomach cancer, detect nodal involvement and distant metastasis. | |||
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Revision as of 14:54, 27 August 2015
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [2]
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Overview
Abdominal CT scan may be helpful in diagnosis of stomach cancer, detect nodal involvement and distant metastasis.
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CT is currently the staging modality of choice because it can help identify the primary tumor, assess for local spread, and detect nodal involvement and distant metastases
Demonstration of lesions facilitated by negative contrast agents (water or gas):
- a polypoid mass with or without ulceration
- focal wall thickening with mucosal irregularity or focal infiltration of wall
- ulceration: gas-filled ulcer crater within mass
- infiltrating carcinoma: wall thickening and loss of normal rugal fold pattern
Calcifications are rare but when present, they are usually mucinous adenocarcinoma.[1]