Napkin ring sign (colon)
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Apple core sign - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Apple-core appearance of the colon - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Apple core sign - cancer colon - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Sigmoid tumor - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Apple core sign (colon) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Locally invasive urinary bladder cancer - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Obstructive splenic flexure colonic adenocarcinoma - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Colon cancer - Barium study - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Double
contrast barium enema (overview) • Colon cancer (double contrast barium enema) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Colorectal
cancer • Sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Apple core sculpture (photo) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Apple core
sign (colon) • Colorectal adenocarcinoma (gross pathology) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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The apple core sign, also known as the napkin ring sign (bowel), is most frequently associated with constriction of the lumen of the colon by a stenosing annular colorectal carcinoma.
Differential diagnosis
The appearance of the apple-core lesion of the colon also can be caused by other diseases :
- lymphoma with colonic involvement - appears more diffuse
- Crohn disease
- chronic ulcerative colitis
- ischemic colitis
- chlamydia infection
- colonic tuberculosis
- helminthoma
- colonic amoebiasis
- colonic cytomegalovirus
- villous adenoma
- radiosurgery e.g. high dose CyberKnife used for treating unresectable abdominal malignancies
See also
Siehe auch:
und weiter:
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