More common diseases, such as benign asbestos-related pleural disease and metastatic adenocarcinoma , can look radiographically identical to mesothelioma. (medscape.com)
CT is the imaging modality of choice to assess pleural disease and has shown sensitivity and specificity for identifying malignancy. (medscape.com)
Diffuse pleural thickening or extensive lobular pleural-based masses are seen in about 50% of cases. (medscape.com)
The most common mesothelioma finding on radiographs is unilateral, concentric, plaquelike, or nodular pleural thickening (as seen in the images below). (medscape.com)
Pleural effusions are common and may obscure the presence of the underlying pleural thickening. (medscape.com)
Underwent1
We performed a retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database of 34 patients who underwent CRS and HIPEC and 21 patients who underwent PC for CLR peritoneal carcinomatosis, at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), from Jan 2008 to Dec 2013. (medicinelakex1.com)
Patients5
Consider the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with chronic kidney disease. (medscape.com)
Patients with a long history of recurrent abdominal pain and who on imaging were found to have a diffusely thickened gall bladder wall, with cholelithiasis, choledocholithiasis and submucosal hypoattenuated nodules were likely to have XGC while those with anorexia,weight loss,focal thickening of the gallbladder wall on imaging and dense local organ infiltration were more likely to have GBC. (medicinelakex1.com)
Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provide prolonged survival in selected patients with colorectal (CLR) peritoneal carcinomatosis. (medicinelakex1.com)
CRS and HIPEC confer prolonged survival compared to PC in patients with CLR peritoneal carcinomatosis. (medicinelakex1.com)
Patients treated with palliative chemotherapy suffer significant morbidity from disease progression that disrupts chemotherapy and results in significantly longer hospitalization. (medicinelakex1.com)
Diagnosis4
CT plays an essential role in the diagnosis of mesenteric disease. (sajr.org.za)
Some mesenteric diseases present with distinctive imaging findings while others have similar findings, thereby complicating their differential diagnosis. (sajr.org.za)
OS was calculated from the date of diagnosis of peritoneal metastases till death. (medicinelakex1.com)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an excellent non-invasive modality that helps in non-invasive diagnosis, with excellent delineation of the disease extent, and thus provides a presurgical mapping of the disease, which is helpful for the operating surgeon [ 6 ]. (polradiol.com)
Radiographs1
therefore, disease extent is frequently underestimated in radiographs. (medscape.com)
Contrast2
They demonstrate various contrast enhancement patterns including early peripheral enhancement because of vascular tissue ( Figure 1 ), delayed central enhancement of the fibrotic components, heterogenous, homogenous and absent enhancement. (sajr.org.za)
If the chest is to be studied, images are obtained in the arterial phase of contrast enhancement, followed by a pause sufficiently long to image the abdomen and pelvis in the late arterial or early portal venous phase. (radiologykey.com)
Benign2
The radiographic findings of mesothelioma are nonspecific and are observed in other diseases, including metastatic carcinoma, lymphoma, and benign asbestos disease. (medscape.com)
Endometriosis is a common benign and chronic inflammatory gynaecological disease due to functional endometrial glands and stroma in an ectopic location outside the uterine cavity [ 1 ]. (polradiol.com)
Surgery1
60.0% due to complications of peritoneal disease, most commonly intestinal obstruction (I/O). 14.3% required emergency surgery for I/O and 23.8% required abdominal cope loop and ureteric stent insertion. (medicinelakex1.com)
Frequently1
The tumor frequently extends into the fissures, which become thickened and irregular in contour. (medscape.com)
Common1
Evaluation of the mesentery is often neglected during routine ultrasound (US) because of inadequate training and unfamiliarity with the common US features encountered with mesenteric disease. (sajr.org.za)
Small1
This plain abdominal radiograph of a 55-year-old woman presenting with features of intestinal obstruction shows dilated loops of the small bowel associated with thickened edematous valvulae conniventes and a strangulated left inguinal hernia (arrow). (medscape.com)