[The role of computerized tomography in the diagnosis of regional metastases of cancer of the esophagus and the proximal part of the stomach].

Computed tomography (CT) findings were compared with operative ones for 50 patients with esophageal and proximal gastric cancer. In diagnosis of metastases to the upper abdominal and retroperitoneal lymph nodes ST sensitivity reached 93.3%, specificity 85% and accuracy 90.