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Comparative Study
. 1977;68(3):294-9.

Clinical significance of preoperative liver scintigraphy in gastric cancer

K Machida, T Watari, S Hayashi, A Akaike, K Oyama, K Hirakawa, Y Jojima, D Tanaka
  • PMID: 596361
Comparative Study

Clinical significance of preoperative liver scintigraphy in gastric cancer

K Machida et al. Am J Gastroenterol. 1977.

Abstract

The surgical and liver scintigraphic findings were compared for evaluation of preoperative diagnostic value in 146 cases of gastric carcinoma. Correct diagnosis was found in 95% with a false negative rate of 2.7% and a false positive rate of 27%. In all the false negative cases, the size of all space-occupying lesions within the liver was less than 3 cm. in diameter. In view of the high percentage of correct diagnosis (95%), we believe that the preoperative liver scintigraphy is very useful clinically. Furthermore, we documented that liver metastasis is a late complication of gastric cancer and suggest that new diagnostic tools are needed to assess the presence of nodal metastasis, serosal infiltration and peritoneal dissemination.

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