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Mesenteric adenopathy in patients with prostate cancer: frequency and etiology
Fergus V Coakley1, Rudolph Y Lin, Lawrence H Schwartz
1Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, USA.
AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
|January 5, 2002
Abstract
Objective:
This study was undertaken to determine the frequency and etiology of mesenteric adenopathy revealed at initial-staging CT in patients with prostate cancer.
Conclusion:
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.