Separation of the left gastric artery from the gastric air shadow: a diagnostic sign of lesser curvature wall lesion.
Separation of the left gastric artery from the gastric air shadow is a diagnostic sign of lesser curvature gastric lesions. This finding is especially helpful in patients with large exophytic wall lesions in whom barium examination, CT and ultrasound are not diagnostic. This was demonstrated in two patients with large leiomyomas of the stomach.
D001158:Arteries; D002445:Celiac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013270:Stomach / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography