New concepts in staging and treatment of locally advanced pancreatic head cancer.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this article is to discuss the CT findings that guide surgeons in deciding the feasibility of tumor excision in patients with locally advanced pancreatic head cancers.


CONCLUSIONS
Vascular resection as an adjunct to pancreaticoduodenectomy is increasingly used in pancreatic head cancer. As a result, the imaging criteria to determine which patients are candidates for potentially curative resection are evolving.
Lall
Chandana G
CG
Department of Radiology, Indiana University Medical Center, UH 0279, 550 N University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Howard
Thomas J
TJ
Skandarajah
Arunan
A
DeWitt
John M
JM
Aisen
Alex M
AM
Sandrasegaran
Kumaresan
K
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*