ACCURACY OF COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY DURING ARTERIAL PORTOGRAPHY IN THE SEGMENTAL LOCALIZATION OF LIVER-TUMORS

Authors
MCLOUGHLIN RF BARRY M GIBNEY RG TRAYNOR O GRIFFIN JF MACERLEAN DP
Citation
Rf. Mcloughlin et al., ACCURACY OF COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY DURING ARTERIAL PORTOGRAPHY IN THE SEGMENTAL LOCALIZATION OF LIVER-TUMORS, Irish journal of medical science, 162(6), 1993, pp. 221-222
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Irish journal of medical science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00211265
Volume
162
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
221 - 222
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-1265(1993)162:6<221:AOCDAP>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The ability of computed tomography during arterial portography (CTAP) to identify and segmentally locate 20 hepatic tumours was prospectivel y assessed in 7 patients undergoing hepatic resection. All eight lesio ns greater than 2.5cm in diameter were detected, but only two out of f our and two out of eight of those measuring 1 - 2.4 cm and < 1 cm resp ectively. The overall segmental localization accuracy for detected les ions was 91%. Our results highlight the insensitivity of CTAP to hepat ic lesions smaller than 1 cm in size, but have shown the accuracy of s egmental localization for detected lesions.