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- • Angiography is helpful for evaluating the abdominal tumor blood vessels, displaced vessels and new blood
- vessels (neovascularization).
- • A small bowel x-ray may locate a tumor. This procedure involves passing a small plastic tube through the nose
- to the duodenum and injecting barium and air to provide contrast.
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- Endoscopy and Biopsy
- • Fiberoptic endoscopy is rarely possible unless it is done during surgery.
- • A small part of the terminal ileum can be seen during a colonoscopic evaluation.
- • Small bowel endoscopy is useful during surgery for additional evaluation.
