Gastric Cardia Radiology
Five year follow up study of four hundred fourteen patients.
Gastric cardia radiology. Diagnostic centers of america dca is a leading diagnostic imaging facility offering a full array of imaging services in palm beach county florida. We have five state of the art radiology imaging centers in boca raton boynton beach delray beach and wellington florida. The gastric cardia is characterized on barium stud ies by three or four stellate folds that radiate to a central point at the gastro esophageal junction also known as the cardiac rosette fig 2 12. Variations and benign influences may closely resemble the more dangerous lesion.
Thick tortuous folds or lobulated filling defects in the cardia or fundus. Right gastroepiploic artery inferiorly and left gastroepiploic artery and short gastric arteries superiorly fundus of the stomach. Results of surgical treatment of carcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia. The collection of cases presented here comprises only that material which is rare in our experience or quite new to us.
A healthier weight from surgery can help improve or resolve many obesity related conditions such as type 2 diabetes high blood pressure joint pain heart disease and more. Medically treated small gastric ulcer. Left and right gastric veins drain to portal vein. Ugis has a 70 90 detection rate.
Epidemiology gastric diverticula are rare and c. Weight loss surgery is about reducing your weight and gaining good health. Gastric diverticula are sac like projections that usually originate from the gastric fundus most commonly on the posterior surface. They are the least common of the gastrointestinal diverticula.
Cain jc jordan gl jr comfort mw gray hk. J am med assoc. The gas tric fundus is dened as the portion of the stomach craniad to the gastric car dia. Commonly accompanying this are abnormally dilated short gastric veins which pass from the splenic vein to encircle the gastric fundus and form gastric fundal varices.