Imaging in colonic cancer.
Whilst the diagnosis of colonic cancer is always based on visually guided flexible colonoscopy, which is the only technique that provides a histological diagnosis, the pre-treatment assessment of the cancer involves computed tomography. This can determine the exact site of the cancer in the colon, its dimensions and juxta-colonic extension and is used to investigate for liver, mesenteric or lung metastases.
Department of medical imaging, Angers university hospital, 4, rue Larrey, 49933 Angers cedex 9, France. Electronic address: caridereauzins@chu-angers.fr.
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D003111:Colonic Polyps / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D023881:Colonography, Computed Tomographic / Q000379:methods; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D018450:Disease Progression; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
Colonic cancer; Colonic surgery; Water enema CT