title: Abdominal ultrasonography in detecting and surgical treatment of pancreatic carcinoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  was to asses the clinical value of percutaneous abdominal ultrasonography in diagnosis, staging and surgical treatment of patients with pancreatic carcinoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective clinical trial on diagnostic accuracy of percutaneous abdominal ultrasonography was conducted in 409 consecutive patients with pancreatic cancer which were operated on at the I Dept. of General Surgery in Cracow between 2000 and 2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Diagnostic accuracy of percutaneous abdominal ultrasonography in pancreatic cancer was 91,1%. The accuracy in detecting different stages of local advancement according to TNM classification was assessed respectively 92.3%-T1, 91.3%-T2, 89.4%-T3, 92.1%-T4, a whole T1-T4 on 91.3%. Diagnostic accuracy of percutaneous abdominal ultrasonography in diagnosis of metastasis to lymph nodes, vascular infiltration, and resectability was respectively 80.7%, 86%, 91.4%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Percutaneous abdominal ultrasonography has high diagnostic accuracy in diagnosis, staging and predicting surgical treatment of patients with pancreatic carcinoma.
authors: 1st Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum in Cracow, Poland.
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Kulig
authors: Radosław
authors: R
authors: Pach
authors: Szymon
authors: S
authors: Pietruszka
authors: Bartłomiej
authors: B
authors: Banaś
authors: Marek
authors: M
authors: Sierżęga
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Kołodziejczyk
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011044:Poland; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*