Routine chest CT for staging of gastric cancer.

A-H ChenW-H ChanY-H LeeJ-H TsengT-S YehC-T ChiuJ-S ChenChien-Ming Chen

Published in: The British journal of surgery (2019)

This study does not support the routine use of chest CT for staging of gastric cancer as isolated pulmonary metastasis in the absence of other metastatic sites could not be detected.

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lymph node
dual energy
computed tomography
clinical practice
contrast enhanced
pet ct
squamous cell carcinoma
small cell lung cancer
pulmonary hypertension
magnetic resonance imaging