Table 1.
CT features | |
Benign tumors | |
Glomus Tumor | Small, solitary, and hypervascular tumor at gastric antrum |
Schwannoma | Homogeneous attenuated gastric tumor |
Leiomyoma | Small, endoluminal growth, hypoenhanced tumor at gastric cardia |
Lipoma | Fat contained tumor |
Malignant tumors | |
Adenocarcinoma | Polypoid, or generalized mural thickening, or focal mural thickening with/without ulceration tumor |
The mucinous type has punctate or miliary calcification within the tumor | |
GIST | Exophytic hypervascular GI mass arising from submucosa with central ulceration, amorphous calcification |
Lymphoma | Regional or diffuse wall thickening preserved perigastric fat plane and lymphadenopathy extending below the renal hila |
Carcinoid | Type I and II, small, polypoid lesion, with marked enhancement. Type III, larger, sporadic, solitary tumor with distant metastasis |
Tumor-like lesion | |
Ectopic pancreas | Small solitary lesion at greater curvature of distal antrum with enhancement similar to pancreas |
Bezoar | Intraluminal gastric filling defect with mottled appearance |
GIST: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor; CT: Computed tomography.