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Peritoneal Mesotheliomas: Clinicopathologic Features, CT Findings, and Differential Diagnosis

¹ Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1, Pungnap 2-dong, Songpa-ku, Seoul 138-736, South Korea.
² Department of Radiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Department of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to illustrate various CT findings of peritoneal mesotheliomas, to review their clinicopathologic features, and to discuss the differential diagnoses.

CONCLUSION. The clinicopathologic features of peritoneal mesotheliomas vary among the subtypes such as malignant mesotheliomas, cystic mesotheliomas, and well-differentiated papillary mesotheliomas, and accordingly, there is a spectrum of CT appearances.

Keywords: CT • cystic mesothelioma • mesothelioma • oncologic imaging • papillary mesothelioma • peritoneum

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