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Abstract
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into a vital diagnostic tool Ibr the evaluation or’colorectal masses. The an-n o!’ tins work is to study the role of compuied tomography” {CT), in the evaluation ofcolorectal masses.
The cunenr study was conducted on ]OU patients with file diagnosis of colprectal masses based on clinical examination m 15 cases, barium studies in 30 cases, endoscopy and biopsy m 40 cases and surgical data in 15 cases. The final pathological diagnosis was obtained in all cases by surgical data and/or biopsy.
According to their rustopathological diagnosis, patients were divided into 2 main groups; neoplastic 85 cases (85%) and 15 inflammatory cases(15%). The neoplastic group included adenocarcmoma (65%), recurrent adenocarcinoma (15%), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (4%), and finally colonic hemangioma (1 %). The inflammatory group included diverticulitis (10%)Crohn’s disease (2%), appendicular abscesses (2%) and nicerative colitis(1%), with another case of ulcerative colitis complicated bymulticentric adenocarcmoina, recorded in the neoplastic group.
In the adenocarcinoma group, CT accurately detected the site of the tumour in all cases (100%). The main CT feature was irregular wall