The use of Computed Tomography in the diagnosis of neoplasia in patients suspected of connective tissue disorders

In this paper the usefulness of Computed Tomography (CT) in earlier diagnosis of cancers is presented. Computed Tomography can be utilized as a valuable tool in the diagnosis of malignant tumors, monitoring of therapy and during follow-up or remission phase. The images provided by CT scans depict precise location of the tumor damaged tissues and/or organs. In investigations results of 29 patients examinations were analysed. All patients were diagnosed with malignancy tumors and hospitalised in Klinika Chorób Wewnętrznych i Reumatologii (The Clinic of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology) in Katowice during 2003 - 2006. Earlier examination by using CT allows to diagnose some type of cancers. Such examination is unfortunately expensive. For patients with paraneoplastic syndromes CT examination is especially recommended. For these type of patients effectiveness of proposed in this paper method is more than 80%. These results are very promising.