Small Bowel MDCT

Rengo, Marco; Picchia, Simona; Laghi, Andréa

doi:10.1007/174_2017_22

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“…[ 17 ] and Rengo et al . [ 18 ], stated that patients with small bowel diseases in general and small bowel malignant lesions in particular usually present with vague symptoms such as abdominal pain, signs of acute or sub-acute intestinal obstruction, bleeding, anorexia, weight loss, signs of bowel perforation, or even jaundice.…”

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The role of multidetector computed tomography enterography in the evaluation of localized malignant small intestinal lesions: retrospective radiological and pathological experience

Bayoumi¹,

Khedr²,

Abdallah³

et al. 2021

Pol J Radiol

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Purpose Our purpose is to present our experience in using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) enterography in the evaluation of localized malignant small intestinal lesions with pathological correlation. Material and methods We retrospectively evaluated 53 patients of pathologically proven malignant localized small intestinal tumours, who underwent multidetector CT enterography. Results In this study, the mean age was 51.39 ± 17.4 years. The most commonly affected age group was from 50 to 59 years. The commonest clinical complaint was abdominal pain. The ileum was the most commonly affected anatomical region, showing 25 lesions (47.16%). Radiologically irregular/asymmetric wall thickening was detected in 42 cases(79.24%). Pathologically the most common malignancy was small intestinal adenocarcinoma, followed by carcinoid tumour, lymphoma, and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST). We found that there was a statistically significant association between the pathological lymphadenopathy ( p = 0.005) and absent proximal intestinal dilatation ( p = 0.01) with intestinal lymphoma. Also, there was a statistically significant association between the extra-intestinal mesenteric fat changes with carcinoid tumours ( p = 0.001). Irregular/asymmetric wall thickening was detected in 14 cases of small intestinal adenocarcinoma with a statistically significant association ( p = 0.001) while exophytic pathological mass formation was statistically significant associated ( p ≤ 0.001) with small intestinal GIST. Conclusions Multidetector CT enterography is a non-invasive and accurate method in the evaluation of focal and localized small intestinal malignant lesions. The accurate detection of these lesions depends to some degree on the experience of the radiologist, lesional size, site and pattern of enhancement, as well as adequate intestinal distension.

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“…The GIST patients usually suffer from bleeding due to recurrent mucosal ulcerations, but they can present also with a wide range of other symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Some types of diarrhoea and hormonal disturbances are common with carcinoid tumours [ 18 ].…”

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confidence: 99%