Gastric Cancer Staging: EUS And CT

Gastric Cancer Staging: EUS And CT

INTRODUCTION Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of death from cancer. Only complete resection of all gross disease with negative microscopic margins (R0 resection) provides a long-term survival benefit, and the overall 5-year relative survival rate is approximately 20%. To improve survival and quality of life, new therapeutic approaches have been introd...

Staging of Esophageal Cancer: Is Eus Necessary?

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) in preoperative staging of gastric cancer--demand and reality.

UNLABELLED Exact pretherapeutic staging is considered to be essential for decision-making in the therapeutic algorithm of gastric cancer. THE AIM OF THE STUDY was to characterize the role and value of EUS in the diagnostic and therapeutic management of gastric cancer in daily surgical practice. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thousand one hundred thirty nine patients with primary gastric cancer from 80 ...

Gastric Cancer Staging with Dual Energy Spectral CT Imaging

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical utility of dual energy spectral CT (DEsCT) in staging and characterizing gastric cancers. MATERIALS AND METHODS 96 patients suspected of gastric cancers underwent dual-phasic scans (arterial phase (AP) and portal venous phase (PP)) with DEsCT mode. Three types of images were reconstructed for analysis: conventional polychromatic images, material-decomposition ...

EUS in the management of gastric cancer

In this review we summarize latest data on the role of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) in the diagnosis and management of gastric carcinoma. Since its initial introduction in clinical practice, EUS has been considered a valuable tool for the diagnosis and locoregional staging of gastric cancer and a method of inarguable value for the assessment of gastric wall involvement and presence of infil...