title: Bloodborne metastatic tumors to the gastrointestinal tract: CT findings with clinicopathologic correlation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In this essay, we illustrate the CT features of bloodborne metastases to the gastrointestinal tract from various malignancies with an emphasis on clinicopathologic correlation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Familiarity with CT findings of bloodborne metastases to the gastrointestinal tract and an understanding of the disease spread pattern in common primary cancers will be helpful not only in detecting metastatic disease but also in minimizing the possibility of mistaking metastasis for another metachronous malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1, Pungnap-2 dong, Songpa-ku, Seoul, South Korea 138-736.
authors.forename: So Yeon
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kyoung Won
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ah Young
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyun Kwon
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.forename: Jung-Sun
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seong Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jeong Kon
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Mi-Jung
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Moon-Gyu
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed