title: [The CT aspects and pathological correlations in gastric adenocarcinoma and lymphoma].
abstract: CT morphology of malignant pathologies of the stomach was evaluated by filling the stomach with water. Fifty-three patients were examined who were affected with carcinoma, and 12 with lymphoma. Carcinomas either determined parietal thickening of 7 mm to 3 cm or appeared as endoluminal vegetations with a big implant base. Neoplastic tissue had higher density than adjacent gastric wall in 80% of the cases, and the same density in the extant 20%. Only mucinous carcinomas appeared as isodense, the other histological types being hyperdense. The patients with gastric lymphoma presented with small endoluminal vegetations or parietal thickening of 6 mm to 2 cm. Lymphomatous infiltrates had lower density than normal adjacent gastric wall in 65% of the cases, and the same density in the extant 35%. CT allowed even small lesions to be identified in malignant gastric diseases; nonetheless, the method is to be considered a complementary technique to conventional radiology or endoscopy. The attenuation value of parietal alterations helps distinguish gastric carcinomas from lymphomas, because of the hyperdense/hypodense aspect of the lesion. On the contrary, a gastric carcinoma or lymphoma cannot be diagnosed when the tumor has the same density as adjacent gastric wall.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Radiologia, Università, Bari.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Angelelli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Macarini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Favia
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013270:Stomach / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Aspetti TC e correlazioni patologiche nell'adenocarcinoma e nel linfoma gastrico.