title: New concepts in staging and treatment of locally advanced pancreatic head cancer.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Indiana University Medical Center, UH 0279, 550 N University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
authors.forename: Chandana G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Lall
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: Arunan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skandarajah
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: DeWitt
authors.forename: Alex M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Aisen
authors.forename: Kumaresan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sandrasegaran
mesh_terms: 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*