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Patterns of Extraabdominal and Extrapelvic Spread

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This chapter describes how abdominal and pelvic disease spreads from the coelomic cavity into the chest, the abdominal and pelvic wall, and to the thigh.

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  1. State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8460, USA

    Morton A. Meyers MD, FACR, FACG (Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Medicine, Distinguished University Professor)

  2. The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Chusilp Charnsangavej MD, FSIR (Professor of Radiology, Robert D. Moreton Distinguished, Chair in Diagnostic Radiology)

  3. Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1088, USA

    Michael Oliphant MD, FACR (Professor of Radiology)

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Meyers, M.A., Charnsangavej, C., Oliphant, M. (2010). Patterns of Extraabdominal and Extrapelvic Spread. In: Meyers' Dynamic Radiology of the Abdomen. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5939-3_16

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