An analysis of a recent publication on a model combining patients’ clinical features and spectral CT parameters of the tumor to predict postoperative complications before surgery in colon cancer

Patients with postoperative complications (POCs) after colorectal surgery performed for colon cancer have a poor long-term prognosis including an increased risk for locoregional recurrences and distant metastases. Therefore, it is important to be able to effectively predict these complications: multidetector CT is currently the favored modality for assessing POCs. In a recent scientific paper, Tan and colleagues proposed a new method for predicting POCs based on the spectral CT parameters of the tumor and the visceral fat area measured by CT.