The modern methods of gastric imaging

Ann Univ Mariae Curie Sklodowska Med. 2004;59(1):373-81.

Abstract

The major aim of the review is presenting contemporary diagnostic methods applied in gastric imaging as well as their place in clinical treatment. The authors discuss both conventional and modern methods. Although the method of double contrast barium meal is still the most important in stomach diagnostics, the modern methods such as EUSG, CT and MRI are becoming more and more meaningful not only in evaluating gastric neoplastic pathological changes. All applied diagnostic procedures should not be competitive but complementary and constitute an excellent means in hands of an experienced clinicist and radiologist.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Barium Sulfate
  • Carcinoma in Situ / diagnosis
  • Carcinoma in Situ / pathology
  • Contrast Media
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Early Diagnosis
  • Gastroscopy
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional*
  • Lymphatic Metastasis / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymphatic Metastasis / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Precancerous Conditions / diagnosis
  • Precancerous Conditions / pathology
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Stomach Diseases / diagnosis
  • Stomach Diseases / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed*

Substances

  • Contrast Media
  • Barium Sulfate