AJR 2002; 179:1037-1041.
Kim KA, Park CM, Park SW, Cha SH, Seol HY, Cha IH, Lee KY.
Gastric carcinoma is a common malignancy that results in significant morbidity and mortality. Patients who have undergone gastric carcinoma resection present challenging problems to their physicians. The radiologist is frequently asked to define the postsurgical anatomy to assess the efficacy of the procedures and to detect early and late postoperative complications. CT is valuable for documenting normal postoperative anatomy, identifying recurrences, evaluating anatomic relationships, and confirming the absence of new lesions in the abdomen and pelvis after gastric carcinoma resection.
Compared with the large number of articles describing preoperative assessment of gastric carcinoma, few reports have been published on the CT findings in the abdomen and pelvis after gastric carcinoma resection. We illustrate the CT findings of normal postoperative appearance, postoperative complications, and tumor recurrence in the abdomen and pelvis.