Barbara A Centeno,Sarah C Thomas
Barbara A Centeno
Benign non-neoplastic solid lesions of the pancreas are comprised of several separate entities, with their diagnostic identification best performed in correlation with the radiographic and clinical features. These include all of the pancrea...
Jasreman Dhillon
Jasreman Dhillon
The pancreas is a retroperitoneal organ located in the duodenal loop with the posterior wall of the stomach overlying it and the left lobe of the liver lying anteriorly to it. Tissues from these organs, in addition to the lesion of interest...
Jasreman Dhillon
Jasreman Dhillon
This chapter describes the mesenchymal tumors of the pancreas which are of rare occurrence. Mesenchymal tumors of the pancreas may be benign, of intermediate biological potential or malignant. The more commonly occurring mesenchymal tumors ...
Jasreman Dhillon
Jasreman Dhillon
Non-ductal tumors of the pancreas are relatively rare tumors and include pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs), poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas, acinar cell carcinoma, solid pseudopapillary neoplasm, and pancreatoblasto...
Barbara A Centeno,Jasreman Dhillon
Barbara A Centeno
Brian Morse,Jason Klapman
Brian Morse
Imaging plays a key role in the diagnosis and staging of pancreatic tumors. Imaging modalities utilized for the evaluation of pancreatic tumors include: transabdominal and endoscopic ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance i...
Barbara A Centeno,Sarah C Thomas
Barbara A Centeno
Inflammatory, developmental, and neoplastic lesions may all present as cystic masses on imaging. Pseudocyst is the most common of these and presents in association with a history of pancreatitis. Pancreatic cystic neoplasms are uncommon com...
Jasreman Dhillon
Jasreman Dhillon
It is important to adequately process and triage the specimen obtained from fine-needle aspirations (FNAs) of pancreatic lesions. Many echo endoscopists rely on rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) for adequacy of FNA from solid pancreatic lesio...
Jasreman Dhillon,Michel Betancourt
Jasreman Dhillon
The most frequent indication for pancreatic fine-needle aspiration sampling is to confirm or exclude a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDAC is the most common malignant neoplasm of the pancreas, and the term pancreatic cancer typic...
Jasreman Dhillon
Jasreman Dhillon
This introductory chapter discusses the demographics of pancreatic tumors and the risk factors associated with pancreatic neoplasms. The WHO 2019 classification of pancreatic epithelial tumors and WHO 2017 classification of pancreatic neuro...