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Contrast-enhanced CT for differentiation of ovarian metastasis from gastrointestinal tract cancer: stomach cancer versus colon cancer.

Choi HJ, Lee JH, Kang S, Seo SS, Choi JI, Lee S, Park SY

Department of Radiology, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, 809 Madu 1-dong, Ilsan-gu, Koyang, Kyonggi, Korea.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to determine whether the CT findings of ovarian metastasis from stomach cancer differ from those of ovarian metastasis from colon cancer. CONCLUSION: On contrast-enhanced CT scans, ovarian metastatic lesions from stomach cancer appear more solid than, more frequently have dense enhancement of the solid portion, and are smaller than ovarian metastatic lesions from colon cancer.

Published 24 August 2006 in AJR Am J Roentgenol, 187(3): 741-5.
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