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The Case for MDCT

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New Concepts in Diagnosis and Therapy of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

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Multidetector CT (MDCT) examination with multiphasic acquisition should be advocated as routine study in patient investigated for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The application of a biphasic protocol gives the best results, using a pancreatic phase for tumor identification and arterial infiltration, and portal phase for the assement of venous infiltration and liver metastasis. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is classically visualized as an ill-defined solid mass, not capsulated, isodense to the pancreatic parenchyma in pre-contrast scan and hypo-attenuating in the pancreatic-portal phases. Ancillary signs can be helpful in the diagnosis of small tumors (< 2 cm) and isoattenuating adenocarcinoma. Several benign and malignant condition can mimick adenocarcinoma, in this case magnetic resonance and endoscopic ultrasonography biopsy can be helpful in diagnosis. MDCT enables an accurate tumor staging and presents a positive predictive values for unresectability between 89% to 100%; it also allows a complete preoperative planning and presents high accuracy both in surgical complications and tumor recurrence detection.

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  1. Department of Radiological Sciences, University of Rome “Sapienza” – Polo Pontino, Via Franco Faggiana, 34, 04100, Latina, Italy

    Carlo Nicola De Cecco, Franco Iafrate, Marco Rengo & Andrea Laghi

  2. Department of Radiological Sciences, University of Rome “Sapienza” – St. Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa, 1035, 00189, Rome, Italy

    Carlo Nicola De Cecco

  3. University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

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De Cecco, C.N., Iafrate, F., Rengo, M., Ramman, S., Laghi, A. (2010). The Case for MDCT. In: Laghi, A. (eds) New Concepts in Diagnosis and Therapy of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2010_49

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