title: [When ultrasonography shows a solid mass in the pancreatric head of a patient with epigastric pain, jaundice and weight loss, how should suspicion of adenocarcinoma be confirmed and the degree of extension identified?].
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, España. lguarner@vhebron.net
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guarner
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D007565:Jaundice / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D015431:Weight Loss