Mesenteric adenopathy in patients with prostate cancer: frequency and etiology.

Coakley, Fergus V; Lin, Rudolph Y; Schwartz, Lawrence H; Panicek, David M · AJR Am J Roentgenol · 2002

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine the frequency and etiology of mesenteric adenopathy revealed at initial-staging CT in patients with prostate cancer. Mesenteric adenopathy is a rare finding at initial-staging CT in patients with prostate cancer and is more often due to coexistent lymphoma than to metastatic disease, particularly in the absence of associated pelvic adenopathy and a markedly elevated serum prostate-specific antigen level. Appropriate radiologic interpretation of the finding prevents overstaging of prostate cancer.

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