作者: Carlo Emanuele Neumaier , Giuseppe Cittadini , Andrea Grasso , M'hamed Dahmane
DOI: 10.1002/SSU.1022
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摘要: This article reviews the capabilities and limits of ultrasonography (US) in staging gastrointestinal neoplasms. US is a well-established tool investigation abdominal diseases. Its role very important first approach to liver, gallbladder, biliary, pancreatic diseases, but its abilities for accurate may be limited by various factors, which will discussed. In evaluation stomach intestine, rarely utilized, it can occasionally demonstrate an unsuspected mass that usually must evaluated further with specific techniques (endoscopy barium studies) confirm diagnosis perform (with endosonography computed tomography). Semin. Surg. Oncol. 20:86–90, 2001. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.