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Stomach cancer chest x ray
Introduction
 Overview
 Overview
Chest x-ray may show spread to the lungs as a cannon-ball appearance on radiography. Advanced gastric carcinoma may be visible on an abdominal x-ray as an uneven stomach contours or small masses indenting the stomach contours.
Stomach cancer chest x-ray
Stomach cancer chest x-ray
- Chest x-ray may show spread to the lungs as a cannon-ball appearance on radiography.[1][2]
- Advanced gastric carcinoma may be visible on an abdominal x-ray as uneven stomach contours or small masses indenting the stomach contours.[3][4][5]
References
References
- ↑ Coburn N, Cosby R, Klein L, Knight G, Malthaner R, Mamazza J; et al. (2017). “Staging and surgical approaches in gastric cancer: a clinical practice guideline”. Curr Oncol. 24 (5): 324–331. doi:10.3747/co.24.3736. PMC 5659154. PMID 29089800.
- ↑ Hallinan JT, Venkatesh SK (2013). “Gastric carcinoma: imaging diagnosis, staging and assessment of treatment response”. Cancer Imaging. 13: 212–27. doi:10.1102/1470-7330.2013.0023. PMC 3667568. PMID 23722535.
- ↑ Singh H, Alam A, Tilak TV, Kinra P, Soni BK (2016). “Pitfalls in interpretation of FDG PET/CT: Septic pulmonary emboli mimicking metastases in a case of gastric carcinoma”. Indian J Radiol Imaging. 26 (4): 524–527. doi:10.4103/0971-3026.195792. PMC 5201088. PMID 28104952.
- ↑ Fork FT, Haglund U, Högström H, Wehlin L (1985). “Primary gastric lymphoma versus gastric cancer. An endoscopic and radiographic study of differential diagnostic possibilities”. Endoscopy. 17 (1): 5–7. doi:10.1055/s-2007-1018443. PMID 3971942.
- ↑ Vlasov PV (1972). “[The niche symptom in the x-ray diagnosis of stomach cancer]”. Vestn Rentgenol Radiol (in Russian). 47 (1): 17–20. PMID 5017125.
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