[The role of angiography for the detection of early carcinomas]

So far ultrasonography or CT, MRI had not been advanced, the angiographical examination was illuminated as the most valuable examination for the abdominal organs. But nowadays, US, or CT are further superior to angiographical examination on the detectability of lesions in the abdominal solid organs, still less on the early carcinomas. The role of angiography is now analysis of vascular anatomical localization of lesion and technical application for therapeutic intervention. Therefore, the final curtain has been closed on the diagnostic stage of the angiography.