… One of the major limits of CT is related to the radiation exposure of young patients undergoing
repeated examinations. Besides the standard CT protocol, the most recent technological …

… in the human pancreas satisfactory … application of this technique to humans with suspected
pancreatic disease. … physical half-life of Se75 should provoke caution in terms of radiation ex …

… indications for diagnostic study, 45 patients suspected clinically of having pancreatic disease
were … (most of those falsely negative on angiography occurred in patients with pancreatitis). …

… locally advanced disease, but neither affects survival or metastasis. Therefore, radiation
therapy alone does not effectively treat patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer outside …

… Total-body radiation with this procedure … of diagnosis in pancreatic diseases was obtained.
By this means the number of exploratory laparotomies in patients without pancreatic disease …

… CEUS has the advantage of identifying necrosis and pseudocysts, and can be used in a
serial fashion without radiation exposure or renal toxicity. One study compared 50 consecutive …

… advanced-stage disease even if they are diagnosed soon after the … radiation therapy, the
5-year survival rate remains a dismal 8.2%. Only 9% of patients present at localized disease …

… Although early studies of radiation therapy in pancreatic cancer had shown the disease to
be unresponsive to this treatment (142), a study by researchers at Duke University suggested …

… radiation force impulse - virtual touch tissue quantification (ARFI-VTQ) and eSie touch elasticity
imaging in characterizing and differentiating inflammatory pancreatic diseases… pancreatic …

… in pancreatic and hepatobiliary disease. In symptomatic patients, it can help confirm the
diagnosis … imaging, pathology, interventional endoscopy, and medical and radiation oncology is …