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Disease Patterns

Diffuse Filling Defects

  •           Solitary Filling Defect (Covered on previous pages)

 

  •           Multiple Filling Defects

 

  •           Uniform 2-4 mm nodules – lymphoid hyperplasia
  •           Nodules of larger or varying sizes – neoplasms
  •           Multiple neoplasms – most are metastases
  •           Metastases comprise 57% of all small bowel tumors