Deep learning-based assessment of CT markers of sarcopenia and myosteatosis for outcome assessment in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer after high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment.

Objectives: To evaluate the prognostic value of CT-based markers of sarcopenia and myosteatosis in comparison to the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score for survival of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU).

Materials And Methods: For 142 retrospective patients, the skeletal muscle index (SMI), skeletal muscle radiodensity (SMRD), fatty muscle fraction (FMF), and intermuscular fat fraction (IMFF) were determined on superior mesenteric artery level in pre-interventional CT. Each marker was tested for associations with sex, age, body mass index (BMI), and ECOG.

[Chronic benign Pneumatosis intestinalis].

We present the case of a 63-year-old male patient free of complaints with oncological follow up examination after renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who presented extent air in the intestinal wall. The computed tomography showed a pronounced pneumatosis intestinalis with punctum maximum in the part of left and less right colon flexure. Free air as a sign of perforation was not found.