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Endoscopic ultrasonography in staging of gastric carcinoma | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 0, 2007, Pages 90-99 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Deyar A. Talabani; Hadi A. Sayah Hadi A. Sayah; Amira H.Shubber; Rayadh A.Zaydan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Endoscopic ultrasound is new diagnostic technique for staging of gastric cancer. Design: retro-prospective study. Setting: Gastroenterology and Hepatology teaching hospital –Baghdad Iraq. Patients and methods: Forty-two Iraqi patients with adenocarcinoma of the stomach were studied from June 2003 to April 2005 all the patients were submitted to upper endoscopy and forceps biopsy, EUS and surgical staging. Result: the most common clinical presentation was weight loss ,the most common physical finding was epigastric mass , the most common histopatholo -gical type was moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma .Pre-operative EUS staging had accuracy rate of 75-95% regarding (T) and (N) staging in comparison to post operative staging . Conclusion: this study concluded that EUS is accurate diagnostic technique in staging gastric carcinoma and it is highly recommended in evaluation and preoperative staging of gastric | ||
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