TY - JOUR
T1 - Abdominal Wall Masses
T2 - CT Findings and Clues to Differential Diagnosis
AU - Gayer, Gabriela
AU - Park, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - The abdominal wall does not comprise a distinct organ, and is often cursorily evaluated on CT. However, it is affected by many different pathological processes. These may be categorized according to their underlying etiology—trauma, infection or inflammation, iatrogenic and neoplastic process—or according to the abdominal wall layer they affect. We chose instead to group these lesions into 6 distinct categories based on their CT characteristic density: solid, infiltrative, hypervascular, fluid, fat, and bone density lesions. We highlight throughout the article the importance of integrating pertinent clinical history to narrow the differential diagnosis.
AB - The abdominal wall does not comprise a distinct organ, and is often cursorily evaluated on CT. However, it is affected by many different pathological processes. These may be categorized according to their underlying etiology—trauma, infection or inflammation, iatrogenic and neoplastic process—or according to the abdominal wall layer they affect. We chose instead to group these lesions into 6 distinct categories based on their CT characteristic density: solid, infiltrative, hypervascular, fluid, fat, and bone density lesions. We highlight throughout the article the importance of integrating pertinent clinical history to narrow the differential diagnosis.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042163772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1053/j.sult.2018.01.001
DO - 10.1053/j.sult.2018.01.001
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C2 - 29571558
AN - SCOPUS:85042163772
SN - 0887-2171
VL - 39
SP - 230
EP - 246
JO - Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
JF - Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
IS - 2
ER -
