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Value of EUS in early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas in patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms

DOI

148

Citations

0

References

2013

Year

Ken Kamata, Masayuki Kitano, Masatoshi Kudo, Hiroki Sakamoto, Kumpei Kadosaka, Takeshi Miyata, Hajime Imai, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Takaaki Chikugo, Masashi Kumano,
Endoscopy

Abstract

IPMN-concomitant PDACs are quite often found at diagnosis and during follow-up. EUS examination of the whole pancreas plays an important role in the management of IPMNs as it allows the early detection of these small invasive carcinomas.