Gastric Adenocarcinoma: role of CT in preoperative T and N staging

Gastric Adenocarcinoma is a disease with significant clinical impact worldwide. Imaging as been playing a role in diagnosis and with recent developments of medical technology, cross-sectional imaging became an important tool in its diagnosis and staging. Computed Tomography with the multidetector acquisition option is the best all-in-one approach for staging gastric adenocarcinoma and has gained increasing notoriety in Tumoral and Nodal staging. This work is the result of a team effort to ameliorate the medical approach of patients in order to give them the best treatment and prognosis.

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Consultant of Radiology, Head of Radiology Department of Hospital de S.José, CHLC, Lisboa,Portugal.Regent and Assistant Professor of Imagiology (FCM-UNL)Doctor in Management (ISCTE, Lisboa),Master in Clinical Research (FCM) and Science (NEU,Boston).Research Fellow in Abdominal Imaging (UCSF).