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DOI:10.2214/AJR.06.0476
AJR 2007; 188:785-791
© American Roentgen Ray Society

Original Research

CT Differentiation of Mucinous and Nonmucinous Colorectal Carcinoma

Eun Young Ko1,2, Hyun Kwon Ha1, Ah Young Kim1, Kwon Ha Yoon3, Chang Sick Yoo4, Hee Cheol Kim4 and Jin Cheon Kim4

1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Poongnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea.
2 Present address: Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
3 Department of Radiology, Hospital of Wonkwang University, Iksan, Jeonbuk, Korea.
4 Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the CT findings that can help differentiate mucinous from nonmucinous colorectal carcinoma.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. CT scans of 86 patients with pathologically proven mucinous colorectal carcinoma were analyzed, and 105 consecutive patients with nonmucinous colorectal carcinoma were also included as a control group. CT findings were compared between the two groups with regard to the bowel involvement patterns; patterns of contrast enhancement; and presence or absence of bowel obstruction, intratumoral calcification, pericolic fat infiltration, and local tumor extension to adjacent organs. Statistical analyses were performed using the Student's t test and Pearson's chi-square test.

RESULTS. Compared with nonmucinous carcinoma, mucinous carcinoma showed more severe (2.41 ± 1.19 cm vs 1.94 ± 0.92 cm) (p = 0.004) and more eccentric (22% vs 8%) (p = 0.025) bowel-wall thickening. Heterogeneous contrast enhancement was more common in mucinous than in nonmucinous carcinoma (83% vs 53%) (p = 0.001). Mucinous carcinoma showed more areas with hypoattenuation (p = 0.001), and the solid portion of mucinous carcinoma showed less enhancement than that of nonmucinous carcinoma (p = 0.001). Presence of intratumoral calcification was more frequent in mucinous carcinoma (21% vs 5%) (p = 0.001). Heterogeneous enhancement showed the highest sensitivity (82.6%) but moderate specificity (55.9%) in diagnosing mucinous carcinoma. Tumors with four or more CT findings with a statistically significant difference were mostly mucinous carcinoma, and the specificity was 87%.

CONCLUSION. CT is useful in the differentiation of mucinous from nonmucinous colorectal carcinoma.

Keywords: cancer • colon • CT


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