The radiology corner: metastasis to the colon.
This case serves to illustrate the multiple routes which may occur in the dissemination of carcinoma of the stomach of the large bowel. Spread along the gastrocolic ligament involves the superior aspect of the transverse colon with limitation laterally by the phrenicocolic ligament. Once ascites has developed there is spread along the superior border of the sigmoid and lateral margin of the right side of the colon.
D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007417:Intestinal Polyps / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D011859:Radiography; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*