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Vascular pancreatic lesions: spectrum of imaging findings of malignant masses and mimics with pathologic correlation

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The differential diagnosis of hypervascular pancreatic lesions is complex, and includes endocrine and exocrine tumors of the pancreas, metastases to the pancreas, and masses, or mass-like lesions, arising from the neurovascular networks traversing the pancreas. In this manuscript, we will discuss salient imaging findings of these masses, pertinent differential diagnoses, as well as review clinical symptomatology that may aid in the diagnosis of some of these lesions.

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    Priya R. Bhosale, Aparna Balachandran, Eric P. Tamm, Chusilp Charnsangavej & Khaled M. Elsayes

  2. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Christine O. Menias

  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Michigan Health Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Bhosale, P.R., Menias, C.O., Balachandran, A. et al. Vascular pancreatic lesions: spectrum of imaging findings of malignant masses and mimics with pathologic correlation. Abdom Imaging 38, 802–817 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-012-9954-7

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