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Omental Band: New sign of metastasis
Author(s) -
Stein Mark A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870050611
Subject(s) - medicine , abdomen , metastasis , greater omentum , ultrasound , sign (mathematics) , thickening , infiltration (hvac) , radiology , anatomy , abdominal wall , cancer , mathematical analysis , chemistry , physics , mathematics , polymer science , thermodynamics
Lymphomatous cellular infiltration of the greater omentum has been visualized by ultrasound as a uniformly thick, hyposonic, band‐shaped structure adjacent to the anterior and lateral walls of the abdomen, following the contour of the abdominal convexity, and containing low‐level, nonstructured internal echoes. From this finding, diffuse metastatic disease to the omentum can probably be inferred with a high degree of reliability.