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Angiography in colonic carcinoma

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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Angiography of the mesenteric arteries was performed in 17 patients with adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum. At angiography, the marginal artery was encased in 13 patients and 10 of these were surgically unresectable while three could be resected radically. Encasement of the mesenteric arterial branches was found in seven of 11 unresectable tumors and in two of five resectable tumors. The resectability of colonic carcinoma cannot be established by means of angiography but, in two patients with recurrent colonic carcinoma, barium-enema examinations were negative, while infiltrated vessels were demonstrated by angiography and the carcinomas were verified at surgery. Four patients received intra-arterial chemotheraphy with mitomycin C. In one of these, a slight decrease in tumor size was noted, while in the others no change was noted.

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  1. Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Pathology, Malmö General Hospital, Allmänna Sjukhuset, S-214 01, Malmö, Sweden

    Sten Karlsson M.D., Kjell Jonsson M.D., Jan-Erik Rosengren M.D. & Clas G. Lindström M.D.

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Karlsson, S., Jonsson, K., Rosengren, JE. et al. Angiography in colonic carcinoma. Dis Colon Rectum 27, 648–650 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02553355

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