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Imaging of Uncommon GI/GU Disorders Case 6

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Was to one more case and then we can call it a day.

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Right lower quadrant pain 55 year old paint.

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So right lower quadrant paint, let's go post contrast

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image.

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I know the group likes reformats, I like reformats as

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well in this case.

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Alright, a lot of people people really like this one, okay.

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Good. Good. Good. Good. Good good so good

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so good. So we all right. All right. All right, you guys you guys

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are too much. Okay. Everyone's all over the car. All

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right. This is a car snowing. Okay,

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The Coop knows there of course. No, it's that's awesome. So I

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want to show this case for a few reasons. I like

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I like car snow tumors. It's nice because you can think of a differential as well.

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And so you see a mesenteric mass here. We see some califications. I

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really like the oh, maybe

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I don't oh, yeah, there's a little bit of speculation. So almost

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feels like some vessels or tether to this location see another

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small note over there. And the reason I want to show this case.

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Well, I actually got the green light that I can go a little bit longer. So maybe

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I'll show the last case it won't be that much longer after this case. So we'll do that

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and whoever needs to jump off can jump off. But the reason I like

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this case is you know, listen to group has seen it seems that the

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group knows their cars noids and that's fine. We'll talk a little bit about that. But one

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thing that I urge the group to do is when you see your car's

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noise and you've sort of quote unquote Master to diagnosing

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a carcinoid

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Way, I kind of you know the next step which can we find the primary?

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Right. That's what I always look for. Let's look

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for the primary because I don't know and I have a luxury

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of time and an academic practice to do that. I understand that but

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I think that's sometimes make these case interesting and so

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can we find the primary? I think somebody said it they saw the

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primary.

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and and it's gonna be tough for me to

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to sort of show it to you to have

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people chime in where it is, but they called them the ilium that be a

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great guess if you guessed it, but if you actually saw it

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good on you.

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Right over there.

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It's right over there. Let me window it for you.

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Alright, there's a mass over there. There's some calcifications of

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that mask that's gonna be the primary and one of the things that our

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surgeons have told us is that oftentimes you can see right over there

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is that you'll be almost there may

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be more than one primers. You'll see one lesion you may there

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may be others right adjacent to it. And so have a look in

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the bowel loops and just see if you can window it to a point where you can actually

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see the primary in this case. We can see it right over

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there.

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And so let's just go through this PowerPoint to

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just review some teaching points. It's a neuroendocrine

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tumor it often arises in the GI tract other

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sites are less common.

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Almost, you know, we think about a traditionally in the ilium,

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but it can occur in other places in the bowel. We all know about carcinoid syndrome.

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It's when you have the meths to the liver with a

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spectrum of findings right due to the serotonin release and

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you're looking primarily for the mesenteric mass

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remembering that the mesenteric mass is the nodal metastasis. It's

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not the primary tumor itself. It's the noble metastasis

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from a lesion in the

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bowels to look at the loops and bowels. See if you can see a similar appearing mask somewhere

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there 70% of some pumpkin countifications often

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speculated margins and they will tether

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adjacent Loops of bowel right and vessels and

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they are quite often hypervascular. And

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so particularly you're looking for liver mats. It's important to do

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these studies correctly when we do in arterial phase through the liver. Otherwise, you

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may miss these liver metastases.

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Faculty

Mahan Mathur, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Vice-Chair of Education & Director of Medical Student Education in Radiology

Yale School of Medicine

Tags

Small Bowel

Peritoneum/Mesentery

Liver

Gastrointestinal (GI)

CT