Open AccessEvaluation of Bowel Wall Thickening by Computed Tomography to Differentiate Benign from Malignant Lesions
Author(s) -
Chaitanya Tapasvi,
Neeraj Prajapati,
Rajneesh Madhok,
Ashish Gupta,
Vichi Taneja,
Abhinav Aggarwal
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/10601.5149
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , lesion , abdomen , supine position , biopsy , tomography , pathology , surgery
Computed tomography(CT) is an excellent non-invasive modality to evaluate bowel wall thickening.The aim of our study was to evaluate CT appearance of bowel wall thickening due to various benign and malignant conditions taking into consideration pattern of attenuation, bowel wall thickness, extent of lesion, symmetry of lesion and other associated CT findings.