As patients are living longer and axial imaging is more widespread, increasing numbers of cystic neoplasms of the pancreas are found. Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms and mucinous cystic neoplasms are…
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Surgical resection offers the best opportunity for prolonged survival but is limited to patients with locally…
Successful surgical resection offers the only chance for cure in patients with pancreatic cancer. However, pancreatic resection is feasible in less than 20% of the patients. In this review, the…
Pancreas adenocarcinoma is an aggressive malignancy. The risk of recurrence remains high even for patients with localized disease undergoing surgical resection. Adjuvant systemic therapy has demonstrated the ability to reduce…
Minimally invasive techniques have the potential to revolutionize the surgical management of pancreatic disease in the setting of benign and malignant processes. Pancreatic surgery, in particular, may be aided significantly…
Accurate diagnosis and staging of pancreatic neoplasms is essential for surgical planning and identification of locally advanced and metastatic disease that is incurable by surgery. The ability to position the…
Carcinogenic progression in the pancreas arises through a well-established stepwise accumulation of molecular aberrations from a normal cell to an invasive adenocarcinoma. Recent large-scale sequencing efforts have provided insight into…
Imaging plays a central role in the management of patients with suspected or known periampullary masses, including the initial diagnosis, staging, and follow-up to assess treatment response or recurrence. Use…
Nipun B. Merchant, MD, FACS, Editor These three “rules” of surgical training are facetiously instilled into the psyche of all new surgical residents. The third rule was based on the…
Nicholas J. Petrelli, MD, FACS, Consulting Editor This issue of the Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America is devoted to pancreatic neoplasms. The guest editor is Nipun Merchant, MD. Dr…
