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Pelvic CT in Patients with Esophageal Cancer

¹ Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021.
³ Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021.
⁴ Drexel University College of Medicine, Hahnemann Campus, Philadelphia, PA 19102.

OBJECTIVE. Our aim was to determine whether pelvic CT scans reveal clinically relevant information that would change treatment in the initial or follow-up radiologic examination of patients with esophageal cancer.

CONCLUSION. We observed that the addition of pelvic CT to 201 examinations of the chest and abdomen had a minimal effect on patient treatment. No pelvic examination changed the cancer stage, but three pelvic CT scans in three patients (3%) altered treatment.

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