CT, MRI and PET imaging in peritoneal malignancy

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-139

  Patel, Chirag M ^a   Sahdev, Anju ^a   Reznek, Rodney H ^b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT; MRI; Peritoneal carcinomatosis; Peritoneal malignancy; Peritoneum; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORO 17BETA ESTRADIOL F 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYSTIC MESOTHELIOMA; DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND CELL TUMOR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GASTROENTEROPANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; GASTROHEPATIC LIGAMENT; GREATER OMENTUM; HEPATODUODENAL LIGAMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IINFRAMESOCOLIC SPACE; LIGAMENT; LIVER; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MESOCOLON; MESOTHELIUM CELL; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OMENTUM; OVARY CANCER; PARACOLIC GUTTER; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PELVIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEAL MALIGNANCY; PERITONEUM CANCER; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PERITONEAL CARCINOMA; REVIEW; SMALL BOWEL MESENTERY; SPLEEN; STOMACH CANCER; SUPRAMESOCOLIC SPACE; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR SEEDING;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PERITONEUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052219404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2011.0016     Document Type: Review

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