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| Title: | Diagnosis & Imaging of Chronic Pancreatitis
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| Author: | Kenneth Coenegrachts, Hans Rigauts, Vincent De Wilde & Vincent Denolin (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1604566914 : 9781604566918 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - November 2008 |
| List Price: | 19.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | Oncology |
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 respectable 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.
Preface; 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; Conclusion; References; Index.
