Diagnosis and imaging of chronic pancreatitis / Kenneth Coenegrachts ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coenegrachts, Kenneth, author.

Contributor:

Coenegrachts, Kenneth.

Series:

Novinka (Series)

Novinka

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pancreatitis--Imaging.

Pancreatitis.

Pancreatitis--Diagnosis.

Pancreas--Cancer--Diagnosis.

Pancreas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Biomedical Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The insidious nature of disease taken into account, the majority of patients with chronic or malignant pancreatic disease present late in their course and even with early diagnosis, mortality rates of pancreatic cancer are high. In anticipation of a better understanding of the molecular biology and the epigenesis in the origin and progression of disease, benign and malignant as well, the most challenging items in the diagnosis and management reside at present in endoscopic and radiological pancreatic imaging. In these the diagnosis of early chronic pancreatitis, of early pancreatic cancer, the differentiation of a pancreatic mass in the setting of chronic pancreatitis and the accurate staging of potentially resectable pancreatic cancer with respect to the dorsal extension are of utmost importance. Focus in this book is on the diagnostic and imaging challenges of chronic pancreatitis and the differentiation with pancreatic cancer in an early stage.

Contents:

Early chronic pancreatitis

Pancreatic cancer

Differentiation of an early neoplastic and inflammatory mass in chronic pancreatitis

Dorsal extension of resectable pancreatic cancer

Future developments in the diagnosis of pancreatic disease.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61728-365-7

OCLC:

923662148