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EUS-guided interventional management of pancreatic tumor

Author(s) -

Pazhanivel Mohan,

Dong Wan Seo

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

gastrointestinal intervention

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2213-1809

pISSN - 2213-1795

DOI - 10.1016/j.gii.2013.03.003

Subject(s) - medicine , endoscopic ultrasound , pancreatic cancer , radiology , pancreas , interventional radiology , adenocarcinoma , cancer , general surgery

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Most patients have advanced disease at diagnosis, resulting in a very poor prognosis. Hence there is a need for newer therapeutic strategies and novel approaches to the management of these tumors. Advances in endoscopic ultrasound have brought a change in its role from being solely a diagnostic tool to having a therapeutic role in gastrointestinal malignancies. Interventional endoscopic ultrasound is useful in the palliation of pancreatic adenocarcinoma as well as in the treatment of cystic tumors of the pancreas. This review focuses on the present status of interventional endoscopic ultrasound for pancreatic tumor

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