staging of gastrointestinal cancer

Indications

• evaluation of gastrointestinal cancer

Clinical significance

• Stage I: intraluminal tumor
• Stage II: thickening of wall of tumor
• Stage III: invasion of surrounding structures
• Stage IV: distant metastases

Procedure

• gastrointestinal carcinoma (staging via CT)

More general terms

• staging of cancer

Additional terms

• gastrointestinal (GI) cancer