Australia & New Zealand Medical & Surgical Gastrointestinal Week 2009 - preview

  The chance finding of bowel wall thickening frequently identifies the presence of significant colonic pathology and accurately locates colon cancer. Of 74 colonoscopies that were initiated after the finding of bowel wall thickening on abdominal CT scans, 34 were found to have conditions including colon cancer, colonic polyps or inflammatory bowel disease. Colon cancer was found in 8 patients (11%), and in all of the location of colon cancer correlated with the site of bowel wall thickening. The location of bowel wall thickening also correlated with over half of the sites of the colonic polyps....