Pancreatic Cancer Imaging: What the Surgeon Wants to Know?

• Main Authors: Ajaykumar C. Morani (Author), Ahmed Taher (Author), Nisha S. Ramani (Author), Corey T. Jensen (Author), Asif Patel (Author), Bilal Mujtaba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pancreatic cancer is rare but is one of the deadliest cancers. Complete surgical removal of the cancer with negative margins is the only potentially curative treatment. However, majority of the cases present with distant metastases and/or locally advanced disease, and only a limited subset (up to 20...