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Anatomy of the PancreasOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful imaging technique for evaluating pancreatic neoplasms. It has been used in differentiating benign and malignant lesions in the pancreas. It is a useful noninvasive diagnostic tool in carrying out this differentiation and it provides also informations that reflects tissue cellularity by means of DWI which can be used in detection of tumor aggressiveness and response to treatment.The aim of this work was to evaluate the role of MRI in differentiating between benign and malignant pancreatic lesions and its correlation with histopathological results as the reference standard. This study included 30 patients, 17 females and 13 males with a mean age 50 years. Sixteen patients had malignant masses (14 patients were adenocarcinoma, one patient was lymphoma and one patient was metastasis) and 14 patients had benign masses (7 patients were pancreatic pseudocysts, two patients were pancreatic abscesses, three patients were simple cysts and two patients were focal pancreatitis). The main clinical symptom was abdominal pain and most of masses were located in the head of the pancreas.