PMID: 8963830Jan 1, 1996Paper

Preoperative diagnosis of pancreas carcinoma: what is necessary and where are the limitations in imaging?

Swiss Surgery = Schweizer Chirurgie = Chirurgie Suisse = Chirurgia Svizzera
G P Krestin

Abstract

Computed tomography continues to be the imaging modality of choice for staging of pancreatic carcinoma. It has an accuracy of over 70% in predicting tumor resectability and a sensitivity of almost 100% in detecting nonresectable pancreatic lesions. Magnetic resonance imaging with the use of recent technical development delivers almost similar results. It can be expected, that introduction of dynamic contrast-enhanced fast sequences will further improve the results of preoperative staging.

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