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Stomach cancer echocardiography or ultrasound
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is the most reliable diagnostic technique for evaluation of the depth of invasion of primary gastric cancers. Endoscopic ultrasonography is not the procedure of choice for detecting nodal spread.
Stomach cancer echocardiography or ultrasound
Stomach cancer echocardiography or ultrasound
- Â Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is the most reliable diagnostic technique for evaluating the depth of invasion of primary gastric cancers, although newer CT techniques and MRI may achieve similar results in terms of diagnostic accuracy.[1]
- For early gastric cancers, the sensitivity and specificity rates were 85 and 90 percent, respectively.[2]
- For metastatic involvement of lymph nodes, the sensitivity rates are 83 percent and specificity rates are 67 percent.
- Â Endoscopic ultrasonography is not the procedure of choice for detecting lymph nodes.[3]
References
References
- ↑ Bhandari S, Shim CS, Kim JH, Jung IS, Cho JY, Lee JS; et al. (2004). “Usefulness of three-dimensional, multidetector row CT (virtual gastroscopy and multiplanar reconstruction) in the evaluation of gastric cancer: a comparison with conventional endoscopy, EUS, and histopathology”. Gastrointest Endosc. 59 (6): 619–26. PMID 15114303.
- ↑ Mocellin S, Pasquali S (2015). “Diagnostic accuracy of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) for the preoperative locoregional staging of primary gastric cancer”. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2): CD009944. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009944.pub2. PMID 25914908.
- ↑ Kwee RM, Kwee TC (2007). “Imaging in local staging of gastric cancer: a systematic review”. J Clin Oncol. 25 (15): 2107–16. doi:10.1200/JCO.2006.09.5224. PMID 17513817.
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