Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

LIVE: Thursday 27th June 2024, 18:00-19:30 (CEST)
Join our expert panel to discover why you need to understand the drivers of non-adherence in your patients, and how you can optimize medication adherence in your clinics to drastically improve patient outcomes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Insights into Imaging
Published in: Insights into Imaging 3/2011

Open Access 01-06-2011 | Pictorial Review

Common primary tumours of the abdomen and pelvis and their patterns of tumour spread as seen on multi-detector computed tomography

Authors: Nyree Griffin, Christopher Burke, Lee Alexander Grant

Published in: Insights into Imaging | Issue 3/2011

Login to get access

Abstract

Background

Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has become the main investigation of choice for staging of many cancers.

Aim

The purpose of this pictorial review is to discuss the imaging appearances on CT of some of the more common cancers arising within the abdomen and pelvis and to describe their typical sites of local, nodal and haematogenous tumour spread.

Methods

Cancers arising from the stomach, pancreas, colon, kidney, ovary and prostate will be reviewed.

Results

Awareness of the characteristic sites of tumour spread is important to allow accurate identification of all sites of disease.

Conclusion

This will clearly have an impact on both patient management and prognosis.
Literature
1.
2.
Shimizu K, Ito K, Matsunaga N, Shimizu A, Kawakami Y (2005) Diagnosis of gastric cancer with MDCT using the water-filling method and multiplanar reconstruction: CT-histologic correlation. AJR Am J Roentgenol 185(5):1152–1158CrossRefPubMed
3.
Rossi M, Broglia L, Graziano P, Maccioni F, Bezzi M, Masciangelo R, Rossi P (1999) Local invasion of gastric cancer: CT findings and pathologic correlation using 5-mm incremental scanning, hypotonia, and water filling. AJR Am J Roentgenol 172(2):383–388CrossRefPubMed
4.
McLoughlin JM (2004) Adenocarcinoma of the stomach: a review. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 17(4):391–399
5.
Chourmouzi D, Sinakos E, Papalavrentios L, Akriviadis E, Drevelegas A (2009) Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a pictorial review. J Gastrointestin Liver Dis 18(3):379–383PubMed
6.
Hong X, Choi H, Loyer EM, Benjamin RS, Trent JC, Charnsangavej C (2006) Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: role of CT in diagnosis and in response evaluation and surveillance after treatment with imatinib. Radiographics 26:481–495CrossRefPubMed
7.
Lall CG, Howard TJ, Skandarajah A, DeWitt JM, Aisen AM, Sandrasegaran K (2007) New concepts in staging and treatment of locally advanced pancreatic head cancer. AJR Am J Roentgenol 189(5):1044–1050CrossRefPubMed
8.
Vikram R, Balachandran A, Bhosale PR, Tamm EP, Marcal LP, Charnsangavej C (2009) Pancreas: peritoneal reflections, ligamentous connections, and pathways of disease spread. Radiographics 29(2):e34CrossRefPubMed
9.
Horton KM, Abrams RA, Fishman EK (2000) Spiral CT of colon cancer: imaging features and role in management. Radiographics 20(2):419–430CrossRefPubMed
10.
Chintapalli KN, Esola CC, Chopra S, Ghiatas AA, Dodd GD III (1997) Pericolic mesenteric lymph nodes: an aid in distinguishing diverticulitis from cancer of the colon. AJR Am J Roentgenol 169:1253–1255CrossRefPubMed
11.
McDaniel KP, Charnsangavej C, DuBrow RA, Varma DG, Granfield CA, Curley SA (1993) Pathways of nodal metastasis in carcinomas of the cecum, ascending colon, and transverse colon: CT demonstration. AJR Am J Roentgenol 161:61–64CrossRefPubMed
12.
Granfield CA, Charnsangavej C, DuBrow RA et al (1993) Regional lymph node metastases in carcinoma of the left side of the colon and rectum: CT demonstration. AJR Am J Roentgenol 159:757–761CrossRef
13.
Reznek RH (2004) CT/MRI in staging renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Imaging. 4 Spec No A:S25-32
14.
Griffin N, Gore ME, Sohaib SA (2007) Imaging in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. AJR Am J Roentgenol 189(2):360–370CrossRefPubMed
15.
Forstner R (2007) Radiological staging of ovarian cancer: imaging findings and contribution of CT and MRI. Eur Radiol 17(12):3223–3235CrossRefPubMed
16.
Forstner R, Hricak H, Occhipinti KA, Powell CB, Frankel SD, Stern JL (1995) Ovarian cancer: staging with CT and MRI. Radiology 197:619–626CrossRefPubMed
17.
Tempany CM, Zou KH, Silverman SG, Brown DL, Kurtz AB, McNeil BJ (2000) Staging of advanced ovarian cancer: comparison of imaging modalities—report from the Radiology Oncology Group. Radiology 215:761–767CrossRefPubMed
18.
19.
Forstner R (2006) CT and MRI in ovarian carcinoma. In: Hamm B, Forstner R (eds) CT and MRI of the female pelvis. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 231–261
20.
Mitchell DG, Hill MC, Hill S, Zaloudek C (1986) Serous carcinoma of the ovary: CT identification of metastatic calcified implants. Radiology 158:649–652CrossRefPubMed
21.
Holloway BJ, Gore ME, A’Hern RP, Parsons C (1997) The significance of paracardiac lymph node enlargement in ovarian cancer. Clin Radiol 52:692–69CrossRefPubMed
22.
Saitoh H, Yoshida K, Uchijima Y, Kobayashi N, Suwata J, Kamata S (1990) Two different lymph node metastatic patterns of a prostate cancer. Cancer 65:1843–1846CrossRefPubMed
23.
Bubendorf L, Schöpfer A, Wagner U, Sauter G, Moch H, Willi N, Gasser TC, Mihatsch MJ (2000) Metastatic patterns of prostate cancer: an autopsy study of 1,589 patients. Hum Pathol 31(5):578–583CrossRefPubMed
24.
Fabozzi SJ, Schellhammer PF, el-Mahdi AM (1995) Pulmonary metastases from prostate cancer. Cancer 75:2706–2709CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Common primary tumours of the abdomen and pelvis and their patterns of tumour spread as seen on multi-detector computed tomography
Authors
Nyree Griffin
Christopher Burke
Lee Alexander Grant
Publication date
01-06-2011
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Insights into Imaging / Issue 3/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13244-011-0089-0

Other articles of this Issue 3/2011

Insights into Imaging 3/2011 Go to the issue

Original Article

Less radiation in a radiology department than at home

Review

Technical principles of computed tomography in patients with congenital heart disease

Pictorial Review

Pelvi-perineal flap reconstruction: normal imaging appearances and post-operative complications on cross-sectional imaging

Review

The future of hybrid imaging—part 2: PET/CT

Review

The skeleton and musculature on foetal MRI

Pictorial Review

CT imaging of blunt chest trauma