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Advanced 3-D imaging for the evaluation of pancreatic cancer with multidetector CT

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer 04/2012; 30(1):65-71. DOI:10.1385/IJGC:30:1-2:065 pp.65-71

ABSTRACT Background. Pancreatic cancer remains the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death. Surgery is the only option for cure.
Multidetector computed tomography (CT) and advanced postprocessing techniques, can provide solutions for difficult problems
in diagnosing and staging disease, and can aid radiologists in communicating findings to surgeons and oncologists. Multiplanar
reformats can provide additional information on involvement of the portal vein, hepatic artery, and common bile duct. Maximum
intensity projection (MIP) images and volume rendered images can aid in identification of important vascular variants. MIP
images can show the relationship of tumor to the pancreatic duct or biliary tree. Curved reformatted images can show the relationship
of tumor to the pancreatic duct or vascular structures.

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Keywords

additional information
 
biliary tree
 
cancer-related death
 
common bile duct
 
CT
 
Curved reformatted images
 
difficult problems
 
fourth
 
hepatic artery
 
MIP
 
Multidetector computed tomography
 
Pancreatic cancer
 
pancreatic duct
 
surgeons
 
tumor
 
vascular structures