Business Wire

ORALTAG™ (iohexol), a New Oral Contrast Agent for Abdominal CT Scans, Launched in U.S.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Interpharma Praha, a.s. announced today that ORALTAG, a formulation of dry, dissolvable iohexol powder for oral ...
Science Daily

Contrast-enhanced CT scan safe for most patients

Iodine-based contrast material injected intravenously to enhance CT images can be safely used in most patients, according to a study. Of the 80 million or more CT scans performed each year in the ...
Healthline

Is a CT Scan Part of Diagnosing Stomach Cancer?

If you have stomach cancer, you have a higher chance of being cured if your healthcare team detects it early. A CT scan is often part of the diagnosis. Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when ...
News Medical

Positive oral CT contrast found to be better at detecting malignant deposits in intraabdominal nonsolid organs

According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the selection of oral contrast agent and optimization of bowel preparation for oncologic CT could help avoid potentially severe clinical ...
ascopubs.org

A comparative study of ultrasonography and non-contrast computerized tomography of upper abdomen as a screening tool for biliary tract cancer detection in endemic community.

Gastric cancer (GC) among California Asians: Analysis of California Cancer Registry (CCR). Final analysis of European patients from the Global Investigation of Therapeutic Decisions in Hepatocellular ...
WebMD

Radiation Doses from CT Scans

Computed tomography -- also known as computed axial tomography, a CT scan, or a CAT scan -- is a tool doctors use to diagnose many types of health problems. Special X-ray equipment creates images of ...