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Informationen zum Autor Jay Heiken is Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Missouri, USA. Klappentext Highly illustrated clinical review of diagnosis! staging and treatment of pancreatic cancer by expert multidisciplinary author team for wide readership. Zusammenfassung Pancreatic cancer carries a very high morbidity; accurate staging is essential in determining treatment plans. This volume covers all imaging modalities utilized in this malignancy! including MDCT! MRI and EUS! and gives guidance on interpreting scans. All treatment options are reviewed in detail! along with chapters on epidemiology and genetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series foreword; Preface to Pancreatic Cancer; 1. Epidemiology and genetics of pancreatic cancer Srinivasa K. R. Prasad and Rong Zeng; 2. Pathology of pancreatic neoplasms Thomas C. Smyrk; 3. MDCT techniques for imaging pancreatic neoplasms Alec J. Megibow; 4. MRI techniques for evaluating pancreatic neoplasms Shawyon Shadman and Vamsi R. Narra; 5. Imaging evaluation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Steven S. Raman and David S. K. Lu; 6. Imaging evaluation of cystic pancreatic neoplasms Dushyant Sahani and Onofrio A. Catalano; 7. Imaging evaluation of pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms Ruedi F. Thoeni; 8. Role of endoscopic ultrasound in diagnosis and staging of pancreatic neoplasms Rajesh N. Keswani and Riad R. Azar; 9. Surgical staging and management of pancreatic adenocarcinoma Steven M. Strasberg; 10. Treatment of locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer Benjamin R. Tan! Jeffrey Carenza and Joel Picus; 11. Rare pancreatic neoplasms and mimics of pancreatic cancer Naoki Takahashi; Index.
