As multidetector CT has come to play a more central role in medical care and as CT image
quality has improved, there has been an increase in the frequency of detecting “incidental …

Every now and then a disease emerges that manages to transform a medical field. Such is
the case of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) in pancreatology. Over the last …

This paper gives practical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis.
Statements have been elaborated by working teams of experts, by searching for and …

OBJECTIVES: Pancreatic-enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) is the standard of care to
prevent maldigestion, malnutrition, and excessive weight loss in patients with exocrine …

Background: Most cystic neoplasms of the pancreas (CNPs) are incidentally discovered.
Their management continues to be debated and preoperative diagnosis is often inaccurate …

Purpose: Pancreatic cancer is a virtually uniformly fatal disease. We aimed to determine if
screening to identify curable neoplasms is effective when offered to patients at high risk …

Objective: Although branch duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (BD-IPMNs) are
slow-growing tumors with a favorable prognosis, the synchronous occurrence of pancreatic …

Objective: Invasive ductal carcinoma (DC) of the pancreas arising as an independent lesion
in association with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) has occasionally been …

Pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) rank among the most
common cystic tumors of the pancreas. For a long time they were misdiagnosed as …

BACKGROUND: Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) accurately delivers a high dose of
potentially tumoricidal radiation to its target while sparing adjacent healthy tissue …