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What is Locally invasive gastric carcinoma. Investigation of choice to know depth of cancer invasion: and explain in detail?
The best way to stage the tumor locally is EUS, which gives fairly accurate (80%) information about the depth of tumor penetration into the gastric wall, and can show enlarged (>5mm) perigastric and celiac lymph nodes