title: Imaging modalities of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
abstract: Recent dramatic improvement of survival of Gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients alongside the development of a new targeted treatment has made the role of imaging increasingly more important not only in diagnosing the disease, but also in monitoring the treatment effect and surveillance. Computed tomography is currently the imaging modality of choice for these purposes. This article reviews the current roles of different imaging modalities in clinical management of the gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
authors: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. hchoi@mdanderson.org
authors: Haesun
authors: H
authors: Choi
mesh_terms: D019160:Endosonography; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18