Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound

Assessment of the stomach is not commonly included in routine scanning protocol of upper abdominal ultrasound (USG). However, assessment of the stomach in patients presenting with epigastric pain can yield invaluable results. This paper presents, as an illustration, a case of carcinoma of stomach de...

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Autores principales: Wong, MFE, Shum, SFJ, Chau, WK, Cheng, CS
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21611075
http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.6.4.e39
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Shum, SFJ
Chau, WK
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description Assessment of the stomach is not commonly included in routine scanning protocol of upper abdominal ultrasound (USG). However, assessment of the stomach in patients presenting with epigastric pain can yield invaluable results. This paper presents, as an illustration, a case of carcinoma of stomach detected by transabdominal ultrasound. The diagnosis is confirmed by subsequent CT, upper endoscopy and operation.
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spelling pubmed-30978012011-05-24 Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound Wong, MFE Shum, SFJ Chau, WK Cheng, CS Biomed Imaging Interv J Case Report Assessment of the stomach is not commonly included in routine scanning protocol of upper abdominal ultrasound (USG). However, assessment of the stomach in patients presenting with epigastric pain can yield invaluable results. This paper presents, as an illustration, a case of carcinoma of stomach detected by transabdominal ultrasound. The diagnosis is confirmed by subsequent CT, upper endoscopy and operation. Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2010-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3097801/ /pubmed/21611075 http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.6.4.e39 Text en © 2010 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
title Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
title_full Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
title_fullStr Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
title_full_unstemmed Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
title_short Carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
title_sort carcinoma of stomach detected by routine transabdominal ultrasound
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21611075
http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.6.4.e39
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