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…
