title: Ultrasonography of the cecum.
abstract: Ultrasound can define masses in the cecum and the cecal bed. In the patient with a prior resection of adenocarcinoma of the cecum, the sonogram fulfills a primary role in the detection of large and ill-defined recurrences not amenable to detection by barium enema because of a right colectomy. Discrete lesions within the cecum whether secondary to inflammatory or neoplastic processes could not be differentiated.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014463:Ultrasonography