Prognostic significance of preoperative CT findings in patients with advanced gastric cancer who underwent curative gastrectomy.
Chae Jung ParkNieun SeoWoo Jin HyungWoong Sub KoomHyo Song KimMyeong-Jin KimJoon Seok LimPublished in: PloS one (2018)
CT-tumor depth and size could be used as independent predictors for prognosis. Preoperative CT can be used for prognostic stratification to select high risk patients for whom neoadjuvant therapies might be considered.
Keyphrases
- image quality
- dual energy
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- end stage renal disease
- rectal cancer
- prognostic factors
- patients undergoing
- ejection fraction
- positron emission tomography
- newly diagnosed
- lymph node
- peritoneal dialysis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- locally advanced
- optical coherence tomography
- radiation therapy