Scirrhous metastases to the gastrointestinal tract at CT: the malignant target sign. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to study the presence of a characteristic appearance of metastatic disease to the gastrointestinal tract on contrast-enhanced CT in patients with known malignancies and to investigate its clinical implications. CONCLUSION: Twenty-five patients with scirrhous metastases had a malignant CT target sign. Careful observation and correlation with clinical history are required to differentiate this unique sign from a benign target sign.

publication date

  • April 1, 2009

Research

keywords

  • Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous
  • Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3712505

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 63849172822

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.2214/AJR.08.1152

PubMed ID

  • 19304697

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 192

issue

  • 4