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[Role of digital X-ray study in the current diagnosis of gastric cancer]
Abstract:
The authors attempted to assess and provide evidence for the expedience of using a digital radiography CR system in clinical gastroenterology. The prerequisite for this was the results of large-scale diagnostic studies of different organ and systemic diseases. The authors underline the specific features of application of this digital system: the latter allows several analogue X-ray apparatuses to be transformed to digital ones, provides economic efficiency as compared with apparatuses with the direct digitization of an image, shows telemedical prospects, and has low radiation loads as evidenced by research and experimental studies even in comparison with green systems, which makes the use of these digital systems in X-ray gastroenterology highly tempting. Based on a great body of data from 126 studies, the authors could show the effectiveness of the digital radiography CR system in the diagnosis of gastric cancer, demonstrate a modernized approach to formatting an obtained digital image, the possibility of postprocessor treatment that can enhance the validity of existing X-ray symptoms. This all permitted the authors to recommend using the CR systems in the diagnosis of gastric cancer, by taking into account the current obvious predominance of its morphological diffuse and mixed forms and corresponding difficulties of their endoscopic diagnosis.
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