Endoscopic Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Staging of Pancreatic Cancer

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  • Michael J. Levy
  • Maurits J. Wiersema
چکیده

Endoscopic ultrasound was developed in the early 1980s to overcome the limitations of transabdominal ultrasound in imaging the gastrointestinal wall and retroperitoneum.[1] The ultrasound transducer (positioned at the endoscope tip) is applied directly against the duodenal or gastric wall. This enhances the image quality by minimizing intervening adipose tissue and air that must be traversed by the ultrasound. The proximity of the transducer to the target tissue allows the use of higher frequency ultrasound and leads to greater image resolution. Accordingly, the use of endoscopic ultrasound has become routine for diagnosing and staging pancreatic and other gastrointestinal tumors.[2-4]

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تاریخ انتشار 2017