Gastric Cancer
Reports from JiaoTong University, Department of Radiology highlight recent research in gastric cancer
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, March 15th, 2010
New investigation results, 'Determining gastric cancer resectability by dynamic MDCT,' are detailed in a study published in European Radiology. According to recent research from Shanghai, People's Republic of China, "Multi-detector row CT (MDCT) has been widely used to detect primary lesions and to evaluate TNM staging. In this study we evaluated the accuracy of dynamic MDCT in the preoperative determination of the resectability of gastric cancer."
"MDCT was used to image 350 cases of gastric cancer diagnosed by biopsy before surgery. MDCT findings regarding TNM staging and resectability were correlated with surgical and pathological findings. The accuracy of...
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