title: [Possibilities of CT and US in the diagnosis of colonic cancer].
abstract: The data of examination of 59 patients with colonic cancer were used to consider the potentialities of transabdominal, transrectal ultrasonography and X-ray computed tomography and to assess their value in diagnosing colonic cancer, including its "minor" forms. The paper describes the ultrasound and computed tomographic semiotics of colonic cancer and determines a place of the above techniques in the algorithm of radiation and instrumental studies. Inclusion of these techniques into the diagnostic algorithm may solve a range of differentially diagnostic problems and allows a preliminary analysis to be made in a tumor lesion according to the International TNM classification. Ultrasonography and X-ray computed tomography should be included into a range of basic methods for diagnosis of colonic cancer.
authors.affiliation: N. A. Semashko Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of the Railway, Russian Federation.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Gorshkov
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography