title: Pelvic CT in patients with esophageal cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our aim was to determine whether pelvic CT scans reveal clinically relevant information that would change treatment in the initial or follow-up radiologic examination of patients with esophageal cancer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We observed that the addition of pelvic CT to 201 examinations of the chest and abdomen had a minimal effect on patient treatment. No pelvic examination changed the cancer stage, but three pelvic CT scans in three patients (3%) altered treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, USA. gollubm@mskcc.org
authors.forename: Marc J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Gollub
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lefkowitz
authors.forename: Chaya S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Moskowitz
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ilson
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kelsen
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Felderman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed