Open AccessAbdominal ultrasound and its significant role in colon cancer. The advantage of its dynamic nature: using respiratory movements to assess neoplasia relations to adjacent organs
Author(s) -
Óscar Moralejo Lozano,
Concepción González de Frutos,
Raquel Olvido Lomas Pérez,
Rafael A. Gutiérrez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2021.8252/2021
Subject(s) - medicine , colonoscopy , bloody diarrhea , colorectal cancer , bloody , abdominal ultrasound , ultrasound , infiltration (hvac) , radiology , diarrhea , gastroenterology , cancer , general surgery , surgery , physics , thermodynamics
A 58-year-old, otherwise healthy male presented to the Emergency Room due to a 24-hour-long bloody diarrhea and constitutional syndrome. Colonoscopy confirmed the presence of a colonic neoplasia. A CT scan revealed an irregular surface and poorly delimited hypodensity of liver segment 5, next to the neoplasia, with malignant infiltration being impossible to rule out.