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Potentially curative resection of pancreatic cancer is dependent on prompt, accurate diagnosis and staging, patient fitness and expert surgery, which if supplemented by adjuvant chemotherapy can increase 5-year survival to 30%. Diagnosis and staging are undertaken using contrast enhanced, multi-detector computerized tomography (CE-MDCT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), supplemented with endoscopic...
Conventional imaging studies are often not sensitive enough to allow accurate preoperative staging of intra-abdominal tumour spread. Laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasound appear to be suitable to improve staging of gastrointestinal tumors.Within a 10-month period 40 patients with upper GI tract cancer underwent laparoscopy for intra-abdominal staging. Additionally laparoscopic ultrasound was performed...
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