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Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer Staging

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After the diagnosis of a pancreatic cancer (PC), accurate PC staging is required for the selection of optimal therapy. Cross-sectional imaging techniques including CT, MRI, and PET-CT are commonly used for PC staging. However, EUS is a useful adjunct for accurate TN staging and evaluation of vascular invasion in PC in addition to allowing diagnostic tissue samples to be obtained (by EUS-FNA). Furthermore, EUS is a reliable method for selection of patients with borderline resectable PC due to its high sensitivity and specificity for staging T3–T4 tumors.

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Ge, N., Sun, S. (2021). Endoscopic Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer Staging. In: Facciorusso, A., Muscatiello, N. (eds) Endoscopic Ultrasound Management of Pancreatic Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71937-1_12

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