CT is advocated as a stag ing tool in hope to avoid exploratory laparotomy in patients with gastri c carcino ma, but CT ofte n fails to predict invasion of pancreas and sple ni c hilumWe studied a se ries of 128 patients with gastric ade nocarcinoma who und erwe nt CT and surgical exploratio n, to evaluate the predictability of pancre as invas lO n by CT CT acc urately predic ted the prese rvatio n of pancreas in 93 patients, while CT failed to demonstrate the pancreas invasion in 23 patie nts Spread to pancreas was correctly predi cted in 7 patients out of 30 patients , and 5 patients lacking fat plane had no invasion, whereas 10 patients with an intact fat plane had invasion Sensitivity was 23.3 %, specificity was 93 % and overall acc uracy was approximately 78. 1 %
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.