Preoperative evaluation and management of the pancreatic head mass.
The differential diagnosis of a pancreatic head mass encompasses a wide range of clinical entities that include both solid and cystic lesions. This chapter focuses on our approach to the patient presenting with a newly found pancreatic head mass with the main goals of determining the risk of the lesion being malignant or premalignant, resectability if the patient is appropriate for surgical intervention, assessment of need for multimodality treatment and determination the patient's surgical risk.
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 021114, USA. cconrad@partners.org
Claudius
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Conrad
Carlos
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Fernández-Del Castillo
D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000378:metabolism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor