Pancreatic Cancer

Reports outline pancreatic cancer study results from Fudan University, Department of General Surgery

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, November 30th, 2009

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: dynamic 64-slice helical CT with perfusion imaging.' "Perfusion CT is able to outline blood perfusion changes in a tissue. Thus, in lesions of the tissues of the pancreas, this offers to increase the accuracy of CT diagnosis," scientists writing in the journal Abdominal Imaging report.

"In this study, our aim was to explore the perfusion characteristics of normal pancreas and pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Dynamic 64-slice helical CT was conducted in 36 patients with non-pancreatic disease and in 40 patients with histopathologically proven pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Perfusion parameters...

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