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Small intestine cancer echocardiography and ultrasound
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Echocardiography has no role in establishing the diagnoses of small intestine cancer. However, ultrasound can be very useful in early stages of the presentation which may help exclude other causes of abdominal symptoms from cancer of small intestine.
Echocardiography
Echocardiography
- There are no echocardiography findings associated with small intestine cancer.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound
- Ultrasound is a very useful tool to detect the mass in the abdomen in early stages of presentation.[1]
- Ultrasound may also help by ruling out other benign causes of symptoms.[2]
- Ultrasonography may diagnose and assess vascularity of larger lesions but the smaller tumors (<2 cm) may not be detected.[3]
References
References
- ↑ Nakano A, Nakamura M, Watanabe O, Yamamura T, Funasaka K, Ohno E, Kawashima H, Miyahara R, Goto H, Hirooka Y (2017). “Endoscopic Characteristics, Risk Grade, and Prognostic Prediction in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors of the Small Bowel”. Digestion. 95 (2): 122–131. doi:10.1159/000454728. PMID 28161705.
- ↑ Zhu C, Ma X, Xue L, Xu J, Li Q, Wang Y, Zhang J (August 2016). “Small intestine contrast ultrasonography for the detection and assessment of Crohn disease: A meta-analysis”. Medicine (Baltimore). 95 (31): e4235. doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000004235. PMC 4979782. PMID 27495028.
- ↑ Kala Z, Válek V, Kysela P, Svoboda T (May 2007). “A shift in the diagnostics of the small intestine tumors”. Eur J Radiol. 62 (2): 160–5. doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.01.023. PMID 17344005.
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