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SUBMITTER: Elbanna KY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7183518 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Elbanna Khaled Y KY Jang Hyun-Jung HJ Kim Tae Kyoung TK
Insights into imaging 20200425 1
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has continued to have a poor prognosis for the last few decades in spite of recent advances in different imaging modalities mainly due to difficulty in early diagnosis and aggressive biological behavior. Early PDAC can be missed on CT due to similar attenuation relative to the normal pancreas, small size, or hidden location in the uncinate process. Tumor resectability and its contingency on the vascular invasion most commonly assessed with multi-phasic thi ...[more]